Deportation data reveals that ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal record in the United States

Published at: 07/12/2025 10:11 PM

Information handled by the Deportation Data Project at the University of California at Berkeley confirms that ICE (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal record, between January 20 and October 15, since Donald Trump took office and announced a series of orders to tighten national immigration laws.

The figures contradict the fact that mass raid campaigns are focused on the capture of “murderers, rapists and gang members”, the main justification for Republicans to support their anti-immigrant measures.

In this sense, the numbers reveal the discriminatory face of mass raids, in which thousands of Latin Americans have been captured simply by their features or names, in an authoritarian way and without any legal mediation. These 75,000 represent more than a third of the approximately 220,000 people arrested by agents in the first nine months of the Trump Administration.

According to Telesur, the figures are compiled by an internal ICE office that manages data on arrests, detentions and deportations. The university project indicates that since the magnate's arrival, the Government has stopped publishing detailed information about the raids.

The figures released exclude information about the arrests made by the Border Patrol, precisely the one that has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities, such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina, and is currently deploying raids in New Orleans. This indicates that these figures have significant losses, and they leave gaps that translate into detainees of whom there was no evidence left.

In this regard, it should be noted that ICE and the Border Patrol are different agencies with independent missions, although both depend on the Department of Homeland Security. The latter usually operates on the southern and northern borders, however, it has been used by the current Government to track undocumented immigrants.

Mazo News Team