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> ".. ICE.. booked into detention 204,297 individuals.. Of those book-ins, 65 percent, or 133,687 individuals, had no criminal convictions.. more than 93 percent of ICE book-ins were never convicted of any violent offenses... nine in ten had no convictions for violent or property offenses. Most convictions (53 percent) fell into three main categories: immigration, traffic, or nonviolent vice crimes. The appendix table at the end.. "

https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions
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🧵 > During the first two weeks of June, ICE brought into its custody.. 927 non-criminals... threefold increase compared to the rate of non-criminals booked in during the first week of this administration.
> This shift in policy resulted from White House Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller.. at the end of May.. he ordered ICE to start arresting more non-criminals. “What do you mean you’re going after criminals?” ICE.. shifted.. roaming US streets and workplaces to round up.. #uspol
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> The White House is focused on “quantity over quality,” one agent told the New York Post. The agents told the Post that ICE’s quota was forcing them to leave “some dangerous criminal illegal migrants on the streets.” ICE shifted away from fugitive operations to focus on asylum seekers at courthouses, immigrants who regularly check in with ICE, and other non-threats....

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> This was the predictable result of President Trump’s executive order rescinding ICE guidance, which required ICE to focus on public safety threats. As a consequence, the overall capacity of ICE to make arrests has grown thanks to shifting many resources from the military and other law enforcement agencies into ICE. It is also borrowing from end-of-the-year appropriations to pay for operations today, leaving it $1 billion in the hole.

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