Comment by kreetx
Comment by kreetx 2 days ago
AFAIU, ICE is also deporting mostly criminals, no?
Comment by kreetx 2 days ago
AFAIU, ICE is also deporting mostly criminals, no?
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.
These people just haven't been convicted - yet.
Of course, you might say "not guilty until proven otherwise", which is true. But they are in the US illegally anyway.
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.
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...