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By: EFE
Saturday, October 5
More than 16,000 migrants detained by ICE had no criminal record
More of 16. 01 detained migrants in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) have no criminal record, revealed this Tuesday a analysis of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), Syracuse University, in New York.
The analysis made to the official data published on October 1 found that of 16, 129 immigrants (75. 6% of all detainees in the custody of ICE ) 09, 769 have no criminal record .
“Many more have only minor offenses res as traffic violations, “said TRAC in a statement, without giving a specific number in this regard.
The high number of migrants without criminal records detained by ICE contrasts with the announcement made last week by the administration of President Joe Biden, which warned that The Administration will continue to give priority to the expulsion of criminal migrants, or those who represent a risk to the country’s security .
The new rules, which will come into effect on 29 November, also prioritize the detention and deportation of those who have recently crossed the southern border illegally .
In that sense , TRAC found that of the , 344 persons in custody of the s immigration authorities during September 2021, 4, 281 had been arrested by ICE , While 22, 063 were detained by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
CBP operates within the first 100 miles into the country from a United States border, so a good portion of those detained by this agency were near the border, and had probably recently passed .