Are non citizens in the US from Canada being deported with no other criminal history?

1. The simple fact reporters have documented: Canadians in U.S. custody without criminal records

Multiple news investigations and first-person accounts document Canadians detained by ICE who lacked criminal convictions — including Canadians who were detained while trying to renew visas, overstayed, or were picked up on administrative checks — demonstrating that nationality from Canada does not by itself shield noncitizens from detention or removal for immigration violations ^[1][3].

2. Broader enforcement context: mass deportation drives that sweep in people without criminal histories

Independent analyses and advocacy reports show the current U.S. enforcement campaign has detained large numbers of people with no criminal convictions, and that the expansion of detention capacity is being used to pressure removals beyond the “worst of the worst” rhetoric; those findings establish that noncitizens without criminal records are a documented and significant part of recent enforcement flows ^[2][6].

3. Legal mechanisms that allow removal without a criminal conviction

U.S. immigration law and practice permit removal for immigration-status violations — visa overstays, unlawful presence, and certain procedural misstatements — that do not require criminal convictions; after detention, some people get expedited removal without a full immigration-court hearing, though policy guidance can alter how certain nationalities are processed ^[5][4].

4. A procedural carve‑out for some Canadians — but not a blanket protection

Department of Homeland Security policy has sometimes placed Mexican and Canadian nationals who have clean criminal and immigration records into regular proceedings rather than expedited removal, but that is a policy discretion and applies mainly to people who entered without inspection; it is not an absolute immunity from detention or removal for Canadians ^[4].

5. On-the-ground stories: bureaucracy, detention and family disruption even without criminality

First-person reporting shows Canadians detained for administrative immigration issues — including overstays and passport problems — experiencing lengthy detention and abrupt deportation, with consequences such as abandoned property and family separation; those accounts underscore that lack of criminal history has not prevented severe immigration enforcement outcomes in individual cases ^[3].

6. Canada’s perspective and limits on return: removals and criminal inadmissibility

Canadian border and immigration materials emphasize that criminal inadmissibility is a central ground for removals into or out of Canada and that removal orders carry re-entry bars, while also noting that removals consider individual protection needs; these Canadian rules govern who Canada will accept back and how prior U.S. deportations affect re-entry, but they do not change the fact that a Canadian national removed from the U.S. may have been deported for immigration, not criminal, reasons ^[7][8].

7. Uncertainties and limits in the available reporting

The sources document examples and broad patterns — including national-level data showing many detained people lack criminal convictions — but none of the supplied materials provides a comprehensive, granular dataset that isolates the total number or percentage of Canadian nationals removed from the U.S. who had no criminal history, so the scale of the phenomenon among Canadians specifically cannot be pinned down from these sources alone ^[6][2].

8. Bottom line: answer to the question posed

Yes — Canadians who are noncitizens in the U.S. have been detained and deported for immigration violations even when they had no criminal record, as shown by reporting and analyses of recent enforcement practices; however, policy nuances (including discretionary processing of some Canadians) and a lack of nationwide, Canada-specific statistics in the supplied reporting mean that the precise scope of how many such cases involve Canadians cannot be quantified here ^[1][3][4][2].