A majority of immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the 2017 fiscal year had been convicted of crimes. But the number of undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions deported from the interior of the country rose dramatically. In total, nearly 14,000 noncriminals were deported from the interior of the country in the 2017 fiscal year, compared with about 5,000 the year before. Breaking with practices in recent years, ICE did not classify the people deported by the severity of their criminal histories, noting only whether the deportee had a criminal conviction. The Trump administration has detained undocumented immigrants who had been checking in with the government for years and had previously been allowed to remain in the country.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2017 20:31 UTC