The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency—aka the hated ICE—announced today that it made about 74,000 administrative arrests last year. That's down from 104,000 arrests in 2020.
These are not border detentions, which are handled by the Border Patrol. They are arrests in the interior of the country. This chart shows the number of arrests over the past decade along with the percentage of targets who had prior criminal convictions:
Toward the end of the Obama administration, arrests went down but they were highly targeted toward those with criminal records. Donald Trump increased the annual arrest rate a bit but took the focus away from convicted criminals. In his first year, Joe Biden has reduced the arrest rate and focused even less on convicted criminals.
NOTE: "Criminal conviction" includes all non-immigration offenses. ICE classifies these as Level 1-3 depending on severity:
- Level 1 – convicted of an “aggravated felony,” or two or more felonies.
- Level 2 – convicted of a felony, or three or more misdemeanors.
- Level 3 – convicted of no more than two misdemeanors.
About half of all arrestees have committed Level 1 offenses.
The conditions that Trump left the Border Patrol and ICE in means it will take some time to clean things out and get them operating properly--baring interference from judges. Biden's team has and to spend a huge amount of time and resources re-uniting kids, and Covid, which meant less time to deal with other issues.
reuniting kids??? Where?. That was the biggest overblown myth of the Trump era. The Obama administration had larger groups of separations than any Drumpf era period. The "illegal" autopsies and why they died in the first place was the headscratcher which progtard media tried to propaganda it. Which of course failed politically .
Best and brightest! 😂
That wasn't Biden. The end of your graph is still Trump inertia.