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The Criminal Alien Program (CAP) and its role in U.S. immigration enforcement.
ICE arrest totals for calendar 2025 vary by dataset and definition, but major compilations assembled from ICE releases and FOIA disclosures place the agency’s arrests in the low hundreds of thousands ...
ICE’s public data classifies people it arrests into discrete criminal-history buckets—those with U.S. criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges, and a residual “other immigration viola...
ICE and DHS treat “criminal alien” as an administrative category describing noncitizens who are removable because of criminal convictions or who are judged to pose public‑safety risks, a label used op...
ICE distinguishes between "criminal aliens" and "civil immigration violators" largely by whether an individual has been convicted of—or is charged with—criminal offenses that trigger immigration conse...
Different administrations since 2000 have shifted enforcement of criminal immigration statutes through changing priorities, staffing and resources, use of prosecutorial discretion, and executive actio...
A criminal conviction can and often does provide statutory grounds for — Section 237 of the as codified at 8 U.S.C. §1227 lists specific criminal convictions (aggravated felonies, crimes involving mor...