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ICE agent
When President Donald Trump ran for office in 2024, he vowed to deport illegal immigrants who were violent offenders, claiming they made the streets less safe.
However, the Detroit News reports that more than six months into his crackdown, immigrants who have never been convicted of a crime now make up the majority of those arrested by Detroit’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office.
Ben Warren and Apurva Mahajan of The News report:
Close to two-thirds or 65% of the more than 3,100 people the Detroit ICE office arrested from January through late July of this year either had pending charges or were never charged with a crime, according to a national deportation database analyzed by The Detroit News. Last year, more than half of all immigrants detained by the agency were convicted criminals.
