Seventy-Three Percent
Of people booked into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since the start of the second Trump administration's enforcement push, seventy-three percent had no criminal conviction of any kind; eight percent had a conviction for a violent or property offense.
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Of the people booked into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between October 1, 2025 and the date of the available data, seventy-three percent had no criminal conviction of any kind. Eight percent had a conviction for a violent or property offense. The remaining nineteen percent had been convicted of something — most commonly an immigration-related offense, including the act of unlawful presence itself.
The figure cannot be reconciled with the administration’s repeated framing of mass enforcement as targeted toward “the worst of the worst” or “criminal illegal aliens.” The framing requires that the people in custody be the people the framing describes; the data show, to a near-three-quarters majority, that they are not.