Staggering Number of Immigrants Arrested Under the Trump Administration Revealed

• ICE increases non-criminal detentions
• ICE data reveal mass arrests under Trump
• Raids exceed projected figures

ICE detained more than 75,000 people with no criminal record in the first nine months of Donald Trump’s administration, according to data released by NBC News.

The information comes from the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley, obtained following a lawsuit against ICE.

The records correspond to an internal office within the agency responsible for compiling figures on arrests, detentions, and deportations.

Between January 20 and October 15, the more than 75,000 detainees with no prior record represent over one-third of the total 220,000 people arrested in immigration operations carried out under the Trump administration.

ICE reveals number of arrests under Trump

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The operations had been promoted as actions targeting individuals with criminal histories, but the data show that a large proportion had no such records.

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The figures do not include detentions conducted by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which this year carried out raids in major cities such as Los Angeles.

NBC News notes that by excluding CBP data, the actual number of non-criminal individuals arrested could be even higher.

What do the internal data show?

For those detained who did have a criminal history, ICE records do not differentiate between minor infractions and serious offenses such as murder or rape.

Data from the Deportation Data Project indicate that nearly 90% of those detained through mid-October were men.

The most common nationality among detainees was Mexican, followed by individuals from Guatemala and Honduras, according to EFE.

There is no clarity regarding how many of them have since been deported.

Voluntary departure and pending cases

The report adds that nearly 23,000 individuals are classified under voluntary departure.

This category means the individual chooses to leave the country without receiving a formal removal order, although the report does not detail their status afterward.

There is also no precise information on how many of these individuals were released or remain in custody.

The released data highlight the scale of immigration detentions and the limitations in how criminal histories are categorized within official records—issues central to understanding ICE arrests under Trump.