During the current administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained more than 50,000 undocumented immigrants in the United States. Since the beginning of the year, there has been a significant increase in the number of arrests, generating concern and debate in society.

According to official data published by The Guardian newspaper, as of June 15, ICE had 56,397 immigrants in custody as part of the Trump administration's deportation campaign, but only 28.3% of them had criminal records, including minor trafficking offenses.

This information markedly contradicts Donald Trump's claims that authorities are seeking criminals to deport as part of his aggressive anti-immigration agenda.

According to data released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University in New York, as the pace of arrests and detentions by the Department of Homeland Security increases, the number of immigrants with criminal records is decreasing.

This is despite the fact that the Trump administration has justified its intense campaign of expulsions because they allegedly involved people with criminal records.

However, according to TRAC, as of June 15, 71.7% of those detained had no criminal record.

“That means only 28.3% had ever been convicted of a crime, including many who had only been convicted of traffic or misdemeanor violations, or a violation that resulted only in a fine, such as failure to keep a dog on a leash, fishing without a permit, or driving a vehicle with one taillight out,” the TRAC report states.

ICE's Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs are monitoring 183,756 families and single individuals, according to data updated as of June 14.

TRAC Reports noted that it made an adjustment to its definition of a criminal record. Previously, anyone registered by ICE with “pending criminal charges” was identified as such. Starting with this update and moving forward, detainees with pending charges will no longer be considered criminals.