Comment by NicoJuicy
Comment by NicoJuicy 2 days ago
Obama deported criminals only and mostly at the border.
Comment by NicoJuicy 2 days ago
Obama deported criminals only and mostly at the border.
A majority of recent detentions are of people without a criminal record.
> According to DHS data, about 29% of those detained by ICE in January had criminal convictions, down from about 54% last February https://www.factcheck.org/2026/01/as-ice-arrests-increased-a...
Note that this percentage doesn't include any pending charges.
You can find stats including pending charges: https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3m... the main uptick in recent arrests is mostly people without any criminal charges including pending.
You can see that a lot of charges aren’t that “criminal” too - it’s traffic violations or immigration itself.
No. That is not the case. The majority of deportations are of non-criminals.
Non-convicted persons, not "non-criminals"
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
Illegal entry is still a crime.
Innocent until proven guilty. Nobody is a criminal until some judge declared them to be.
AFAIU, ICE is also deporting mostly criminals, no?