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ICE Detainees with Criminal Convictions 2025

The percentage of ICE detainees with criminal convictions in 2025

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Jan 18, 2026
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percentage of current ice detainees with criminal convictions

Recent public reporting and analyses converge on the conclusion that fewer than one-third of people currently held in ICE detention have criminal convictions: independent analyses put the share of con...

Feb 4, 2026

What proportion of ICE detainees nationwide have violent felony convictions versus administrative immigration violations according to recent ICE datasets?

Recent datasets and independent analyses show that only a small share of people in ICE custody have convictions for violent felonies—generally reported around (with independent estimates ranging rough...