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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Deportation Data Project indicates that arrest numbers have dropped. ICE averaged about 7,000 arrests a week in the six weeks since Alex Pretti was shot and killed on Jan. 24 — down from 9,000 earlier in January.
But a Washington Post analysis of the data shows that people with no criminal record still make up the largest share of those detained. In all, 42 percent of those detained in the six weeks after Pretti’s death had no criminal record. That is a slight drop from the six weeks that preceded his death, when that figure was 46 percent. Thirty percent had prior convictions and 29 percent had pending charges in the latter weeks.
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Overall, ICE has arrested more immigrants with no criminal record, compared with those with a conviction, since Trump took office again last year. Since January 2025, ICE has arrested more than 146,000 immigrants with no charges or convictions, compared with more than 127,000 immigrants with a criminal conviction.
The shift to arresting large numbers of people with no charges or convictions started in June, when DHS surged officers in Los Angeles, the first of several large-scale raids in more liberal cities. Before that, migrants with no criminal record accounted for more than 20 percent of all arrests. But as DHS turned its focus to finding and detaining people in places like Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, the proportion of noncriminal arrests nearly doubled.
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Despite the lower number of daily arrests, the most recent figures are still three times higher than they were in 2024, during the last year of the Biden administration.
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