Data shows how immigration crackdown plays out in Texas
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ICE agents are arresting more immigrants on the streets and at routine check-ins than under President Biden. But most of them don’t have criminal convictions despite pledges to pursue “the worst of the worst.”

In Texas, which has the second-largest population of undocumented immigrants in the country — with more than 1.6 million of the estimated 13.7 million nationally — the local criminal justice system has become the main funnel sending undocumented immigrants into ICE custody, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of federal government data.

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  • ICE’s average daily arrests have more than doubled from 85 under Biden to 176 under Trump.
  • Daily arrests have jumped about 30 percentage points in the ICE regions that include Houston and Dallas.
  • About 52% of ICE arrests have been of people in local jails, down from 61% during the Biden administration.
  • Arrests of people who had not been convicted of a crime have increased from 42% under Biden to 59% under Trump.
  • The Harris County Jail leads the country in ICE detainers — a request from immigration agents to hold a person for deportation — while jails in Dallas, Bexar and Travis counties have also been in the top 10.