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ICE Detention Convictions 2025

The percentage of people detained by ICE with violent convictions and those without any U.S. criminal conviction as of late 2025.

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Jan 21, 2026
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5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions

The headline that “5% of people detained by ICE have violent convictions, 73% have no convictions” is grounded in multiple data analyses of ICE’s recent detention snapshots: analyses by Cato and repor...

Feb 4, 2026

What % of people arrested by ice are criminals

in the agency’s recent reporting period had U.S. criminal convictions, while the share without U.S. convictions has grown markedly — estimates range from roughly half to nearly three-quarters dependin...