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The share of people arrested by ICE for civil immigration violations rose in 2025, with roughly a third to nearly half of ICE arrests being of people without criminal convictions by mid-to-late 2025.
The simple answer is: some people detained by ICE have criminal convictions, but a large and growing share do not — ICE detention is primarily a civil immigration process, not a criminal prosecution —...
Analysis of multiple datasets and reporting shows that during 2025 the share of people arrested by who had prior U.S. fell sharply while the share arrested solely for civil rose — by mid-to-late 2025 ...
FOIA-released ICE datasets compiled and published by the Deportation Data Project show that a substantial and growing share of people deported or detained between 2019 and mid‑October 2025 had no crim...
As of the fall of 2025, multiple independent data compilations and reporting show that roughly two-thirds to three-quarters of people in ICE custody had no U.S. criminal conviction, with those convict...