Less than 14% of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have a violent criminal record.
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VINCEOct 28, 2026
An internal DHS document reported by CBS News in February 2026 found that less than 14% of nearly 400,000 ICE arrests in the first year of the second Trump administration involved people with violent charges or convictions, and Factcheck.org, NCR and The Independent all report that figure.
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… You ready? Here's James Percival explaining the way the left lies to keep illegals in the country. Cut three. Watch this. It's on an internal DHS document that we had access to in the Trump administration's first year in office for the second term. Less than 14% of people detained by IS had a violent criminal record. Less than 14%. So, one of the tricks that people do is they use this violent crime label. It's an incredibly misleading label. There are many horrible, horrible crimes that people do not classify as violent crimes. …
VINCE · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Factcheck.org reports that about 14% of nearly 400,000 ICE arrests in 2025 involved charges or convictions for violent crimes, according to an internal DHS document.[1]
Supports. NCR and The Independent both report the internal document's finding that less than 14% of roughly 392,000 to 400,000 ICE arrestees had violent criminal charges or convictions.[2][3]
Context. Narrower measures in other analyses give even lower shares, such as 3% of detainees with a violent felony conviction (ABC News) and 5% with violent convictions (Cato), which are consistent with the claim's "less than 14%" upper bound.[4][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 4 not rated
- 1Trump's Misleading Crime Drop Claimsfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Catholic advocates speak out as ICE data shows just 14% arrested have violent criminal recordsncronline.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Nearly half of migrants recently arrested by ICE have no criminal records despite Trump team's claims of tactic shiftthe-independent.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Just 3% of recent ICE detainees had a violent felony conviction, government data showsabc13.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5What's behind the surge in Florida's ICE arrests?wusf.org · not rated · cited for: context
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