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The percentage of people removed in 2025 who had criminal convictions and how it compares to previous years.
are roughly in the same ballpark as 2024 in absolute terms—independent analysts estimate about 310,000–315,000 removals for 2025 compared with roughly 285,000 in 2024—while the administration’s public...
ICE publicly reports detainees in three mutually reported buckets — those with U.S. criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges in the U.S., and those with no convictions or pending char...
ICE’s public enforcement datasets classify people arrested or detained into three mutually exclusive categories at the time of an enforcement action: “Convicted Criminal” (those with a criminal convic...
ICE’s public statistics separate detainees into buckets that are not a simple binary of “criminal” versus “noncriminal”: the agency reports people with criminal convictions, people with pending crimin...
A prior criminal conviction can be a disqualifier for many ICE law‑enforcement positions: agency guidance and reporting list felony convictions and certain misdemeanors — especially domestic‑violence ...
The authoritative sources for annual deportation statistics and breakdowns by criminal-conviction type are the Department of Homeland Security’s statistical arm (Office of Homeland Security Statistics...
Official tallies of deportations and removals since January 2025 vary widely depending on the source and the definitions used: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly claimed roughly 60...