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ICE or DHS statistics and underlying arrest datasets show that 70% of persons arrested by ICE during the referenced reporting period were charged with or convicted of a crime in the United States.
ICE and DHS have repeatedly used a 70% figure, but official ICE and independent analyses show the percentage depends on the denominator and time window. ICE’s public dashboards and independent researchers (TRAC, Deportation Data Project, PolitiFact, EconoFact, Cato) show that at point-in-time snapshots of people in ICE detention in 2025–Jan 2026 roughly half to three-quarters had no criminal conviction, while analyses of all arrestees over some multi‑month periods rise toward ~64–66% with convictions or pending charges; violent convictions are a small share. Thus the DHS statement is presented without specifying the time frame or whether it counts “arrests” versus “people detained” and so is misleading: the 70% claim can be produced using selected time windows/definitions but does not match other reasonable snapshots of ICE arrests or detention.