Nearly Half Of Migrants Recently Arrested By Ice Have No Criminal Records Despite Trump Team’s Claims Of Tactic Shift

Nearly half of migrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, successful nan weeks aft 2 U.S. citizens were killed successful Minnesota, had nary criminal charges, according to caller data.

Between January 24, the time Alex Pretti was killed, and March 10, astir 41 percent of those arrested had nary criminal records, according to authorities information obtained by a FOIA petition from nan Deportation Data Project and analyzed by The Independent. The Washington Post was nan first to study connected nan data.

The numbers bespeak really national agents continued to arrest a ample number of non-criminal individuals even aft Trump management officials said they would set tactics.

After nan fatal shootings of Pretti and Renee Good, which drew nationwide outrage, President Donald Trump indicated his administration’s migration enforcement strategies would beryllium little aggressive. The president declared it needed a “softer touch.”

Border czar Tom Homan besides announced in a property convention successful precocious January “the prioritization are going to beryllium criminal aliens, nationalist information threats and nationalist information threats.”

But Homan added that “if you’re successful nan state illegally, you’re ne'er disconnected nan table.”

According to nan data, 1 3rd of those arrested during that clip play had a criminal record, while 29 percent had pending criminal charges. The information does not bespeak nan nonstop criminal charges of an individual.

The Independent has asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment.

From nan opening of nan president’s wide deportation agenda, officials had asserted nan “worst of nan worst” were being arrested and deported. During property conferences, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would show photos of migrants pinch criminal records. At his State of nan Union address, nan president shared schematic stories of citizens who were killed by undocumented immigrants.

But news stories and information recovered that mostly immigrants pinch nary criminal grounds were being abruptly removed from their communities.

Among nan stories, a U.S. national kid recovering from crab was sent to Mexico aft her undocumented parents were deported. A five-year-old boy was sent to an migration detention halfway pinch his begetter aft nan man was arrested. A mother from Honduras pinch nary apprehension grounds was detained pinch her 4 children.

Thousands of different group pinch insignificant infractions, specified arsenic postulation violations, were besides deported from nan U.S successful nan past year.

Overall, little than 14 percent of nan astir 400,000 immigrants arrested had convulsive criminal charges, soul data obtained by CBS News found.

Many individuals pinch nary criminal records were arrested arsenic a consequence of nan quota argumentation that management officials had enacted.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who besides serves arsenic a homeland information adviser, group a extremity of 3,000 ICE arrests per time past year.

Immigration enforcement officials were put nether immense pressure to effort to meet nan goal, resulting successful thousands of arrests of group pinch nary criminal grounds aliases pending charges.