After six months of aggressive immigration enforcement and promises to focus on deporting violent criminals, the Trump administration has arrested and detained a small fraction of the undocumented immigrants already known to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as having been convicted of sexual assault and homicide, internal ICE data obtained by NBC News shows.
The data is a tally of every person booked by ICE during fiscal year 2025 so far, including during the Biden administration, running from Oct. 1 through May 31. It shows a total of 185,042 people arrested and booked into ICE facilities during that time; 65,041 of them have been convicted of crimes. The most common categories of crimes they committed were immigration and traffic offenses.
Almost half of the people currently in ICE custody have neither been convicted of nor charged with any crime, other ICE data shows.
Last fall, ICE told Congress that 13,099 people convicted of homicide and 15,811 people convicted of sexual assault were on its non-detained docket, meaning it knew who they were but did not have them in custody. A spokesperson said at the time that ICE had some information about but did not know the exact whereabouts of all the immigrants on the non-detained docket and that some could have left the United States or could be in prison.
Running for president at the time, Donald Trump used those figures to criticize his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The new data obtained by NBC News shows that from Oct. 1 to May 31, ICE arrested 752 people convicted of homicide and 1,693 people convicted of sexual assault, meaning that at the absolute most, the Trump administration has detained only 6% of the undocumented immigrants known to ICE to have been convicted of homicide and 11% of those known to ICE to have been convicted of sexual assault.
A senior DHS official said it is much more difficult to arrest serious criminals than noncriminal immigrants, in part because of the workforce involved in investigating and arresting high-risk targets. The official said the agency has shifted away from prioritizing detaining and deporting the criminals that Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, calls the “worst of the worst” and is instead focused on deporting anyone who does not have legal status.
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Of all the known murderers and racist who are immigrants… Only 6% have been captured…..
Because actual dangerous offenders are actually dangerous and hard to track down. You can’t just cosplay being a big tough guy with them, like you can attacking a mom attending her scheduled immigration hearing or guys busy at work, you have to actually be big and tough and put in some investigatory work.