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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Oct 8, 2025, 01:54 PM Wednesday

Is ICE really targeting the 'worst of the worst?' New data suggests otherwise.

President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top Trump administration officials have long claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would spend Trump’s second term prioritizing “the worst of the worst” for deportation: not necessarily immigrants who came to (or stayed in) America without authorization, but rather those who have committed serious crimes since arriving here.

Now, nine months after Trump returned to the Oval Office, new government data suggests that ICE is no longer following that playbook.

According to the agency’s own Sept. 25 custody report, the largest group of immigrants arrested in the interior and currently detained by ICE (16,523) are people with no criminal record at all. (To be clear, being present in the U.S. unlawfully is a civil immigration law violation punishable by deportation — not a federal crime punishable by jail.)

Meanwhile, the number of ICE detainees with a prior criminal conviction (15,725) is now smaller than the number without any criminal record. The same goes for the share who face pending criminal charges (13,767).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/is-ice-really-targeting-the-worst-of-the-worst-new-data-suggests-otherwise-214600729.html

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Ms. Toad

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Wed Oct 8, 2025, 02:59 PM
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That has been obvious for months to anyone who hasn't just stuck their head in the ground.

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