Hi r/dataisbeautiful, this is Jake from The Guardian’s audience team. We wanted to share these charts visualizing some key data from documents we received through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security.
Our analysis of government records has found that the vast majority – 77% – of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction, exposing a stark gap between the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration)’s rhetoric and reality.
The findings come from little-known documents known as I-213 forms. DHS uses these forms in court to prove that a person is in the country illegally.
The Guardian analyzed data extracted from nearly 140,000 I-213 forms, from January 2025 through mid-August 2025, and found that the surge in arrests under Trump is driven by the apprehension of people who have never been convicted of a crime.
The analysis also reveals:
* Fewer than half of the people in the data (40%) had any criminal charge against them, and only 23% had a conviction.
* Of those who did have a criminal conviction, nearly half were for non-violent traffic and immigration offenses.
* Traffic offenses alone made up nearly 30% of the convictions, the largest category by far.
* Some 9% of criminal convictions were for assault, while only 1% were for sexual assault and just 0.5% were for homicide.
Source: ICE
Visualizations made with Adobe Illustator, Datawrapper, and Svelte
this is the definition of inefficiency. i hope maga enjoys eating tariffs just to enjoy a **decreased** ratio of criminal deportations. oh, what’s that? they dont care about efficiency as long as someone less powerful than them gets picked on? got it
HermSquad on
But they were still here illegally, no?
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sreek4r on
I have a traffic violation from 2017 because of a shitty signal that was blocked by a tree. I guess I’m criminal as well. ✊
SignorJC on
Including immigration and traffic offenses in the stats at all makes it seem like a joke
IanCrapReport on
Don’t care. They’re here illegally, have been asked to leave, have been offered thousands of dollars to leave, and still refuse to obey our laws. While on the other hand, we have legal immigrants who return to their country of origin while they wait for their immigration paperwork to be processed.
Anonymustafar on
The word “convicted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this clearly politically motivated post by the guardian
tigermelon on
Can you show Obama’s numbers? The common refrain is that his admin focused more on actual criminals (and just turning people away at the border), but I’d love to point to data if that’s indeed the case.
catchthetams on
I do like the sub being called r/dataisbeautiful , but this data is absolutely disgusting and infuritating.
EchoWxlf on
Can we see this for a yearly time span? I wonder how this has changed over the years.
zenmonkeyfish1 on
Illegally entering the US is a federal misdemeanor…. soooo
TheMiscRenMan on
Entering the country illegally, or overstaying a legal visa, is a crime. The conviction is the deportation.
pouringrain5 on
Still an insanely high number of criminals in proportion though. Is this suppose to be a good defence?
BigDragoon on
Well, breaking into the country is a crime.
guzzti on
«The documents released to the Guardian do not cover every arrest since Trump took office, but do cover everyone that DHS started deportation proceedings during most of 2025.»
«Fewer than half of the people in the data (40%) had any criminal charge against them, and only 23% had a conviction.
Of those who did have a criminal conviction, nearly half were for non-violent traffic and immigration offenses.
Traffic offenses alone made up nearly 30% of the convictions, the largest category by far.
Some 9% of criminal convictions were for assault, while only 1% were for sexual assault and just 0.5% were for homicide.»
So this is only amongst those that the deportation process was started. The criminality statistics is skewed towards those that has committed crime, because of this.
Said in another way;
You’ll find a higher proportion of those that has committed a crime, amongst prisoners.
Same thing with deportations. Being convicted of a a crime (standing in front of a judge) means that the government knows who you are and can deport you, and can deport you because of the crime.
The statistics are notable because even with this skew, they are still in the minority of the population.
onemansquest on
But JD Vance said we are stopping ICE get rapists off the street..Duh
MotherTurdHammer on
And the people who need to see and understand this most still won’t as the picture isn’t simple enough and we don’t have Special Agent Oso on hand to explain it to these mouth-breathers in 3 easy steps.
BigBronco on
I have a question. Are all the numbers of the people in the above graphic illegally here in the United States or is there people that are wrongfully caught up who are legal citizens?
Izikiel23 on
> Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025
Were they legally in the states? If not, why would it be weird to be targeted for deportation?
Joucifer on
What’s the difference between the two “obstructing” crimes?
Loightsout on
I wonder what the point of this is. US law with “criminal” “civil” “federal” confuses me. But should be irrelevant, no?
Is anyone arguing for keeping illegal immigrants inside a country just because they didn’t commit other crimes/civil/federal whatevers?
Sure there are cases where someone was maybe trafficked to the US so didn’t enter illegally. But hey, if that was me I’d be happy about deportation to free me from those chains and if I was free already I’d have gone to the police.
I’m all for immigration. But use the channels given by the country. Whatever they are.
Faraday5 on
Having criminal charges is irrelevant to being deported – that only requires illegal entry or overstaying one’s visa.
It’s like determining what percentage of drunk drivers also committed tax fraud. Interesting perhaps, but not really relevant for them losing their license
dreddstorm82 on
I mean it says conviction not charges, I get innocent until proven guilty and all that but they are already guilty for being here , they may have charges don’t clog the system up and get them out . I can’t believe people are dying on this hill .
ekins1992 on
Being in a country illegally is in fact a crime
greatbam22 on
Did most of the unvetted people that the Biden administration fast tracked into the US qualify for asylum?
Only good thing about posts like this is that it makes blocking the OP really easy.
Feeling-Option1257 on
Go be an illegal immigrant in the Nordic countries and see how fast you get deported lol.
JohnnyFootball08 on
Who cares, if they are here illegally then they need to go home and apply to come back through the proper legal channels. It is not a difficult concept to understand.
brotha_eric on
Breaking immigration laws is a criminal offense
lnxguy on
BS. They are not immigrants.
Bigb5wm on
your title is miss leading it should say most illegal immigrants had no criminal charges in country of origin
![[OC] Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, ICE documents reveal](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2dljctox89lg1-1024x745.png "[OC] Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, ICE documents reveal")
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Hi r/dataisbeautiful, this is Jake from The Guardian’s audience team. We wanted to share these charts visualizing some key data from documents we received through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security.
Our analysis of government records has found that the vast majority – 77% – of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction, exposing a stark gap between the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration)’s rhetoric and reality.
The findings come from little-known documents known as I-213 forms. DHS uses these forms in court to prove that a person is in the country illegally.
The Guardian analyzed data extracted from nearly 140,000 I-213 forms, from January 2025 through mid-August 2025, and found that the surge in arrests under Trump is driven by the apprehension of people who have never been convicted of a crime.
The analysis also reveals:
* Fewer than half of the people in the data (40%) had any criminal charge against them, and only 23% had a conviction.
* Of those who did have a criminal conviction, nearly half were for non-violent traffic and immigration offenses.
* Traffic offenses alone made up nearly 30% of the convictions, the largest category by far.
* Some 9% of criminal convictions were for assault, while only 1% were for sexual assault and just 0.5% were for homicide.
Source: ICE
Visualizations made with Adobe Illustator, Datawrapper, and Svelte
[*You can read the full story for free at this link.*](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct)
this is the definition of inefficiency. i hope maga enjoys eating tariffs just to enjoy a **decreased** ratio of criminal deportations. oh, what’s that? they dont care about efficiency as long as someone less powerful than them gets picked on? got it
But they were still here illegally, no?
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I have a traffic violation from 2017 because of a shitty signal that was blocked by a tree. I guess I’m criminal as well. ✊
Including immigration and traffic offenses in the stats at all makes it seem like a joke
Don’t care. They’re here illegally, have been asked to leave, have been offered thousands of dollars to leave, and still refuse to obey our laws. While on the other hand, we have legal immigrants who return to their country of origin while they wait for their immigration paperwork to be processed.
The word “convicted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this clearly politically motivated post by the guardian
Can you show Obama’s numbers? The common refrain is that his admin focused more on actual criminals (and just turning people away at the border), but I’d love to point to data if that’s indeed the case.
I do like the sub being called r/dataisbeautiful , but this data is absolutely disgusting and infuritating.
Can we see this for a yearly time span? I wonder how this has changed over the years.
Illegally entering the US is a federal misdemeanor…. soooo
Entering the country illegally, or overstaying a legal visa, is a crime. The conviction is the deportation.
Still an insanely high number of criminals in proportion though. Is this suppose to be a good defence?
Well, breaking into the country is a crime.
«The documents released to the Guardian do not cover every arrest since Trump took office, but do cover everyone that DHS started deportation proceedings during most of 2025.»
«Fewer than half of the people in the data (40%) had any criminal charge against them, and only 23% had a conviction.
Of those who did have a criminal conviction, nearly half were for non-violent traffic and immigration offenses.
Traffic offenses alone made up nearly 30% of the convictions, the largest category by far.
Some 9% of criminal convictions were for assault, while only 1% were for sexual assault and just 0.5% were for homicide.»
So this is only amongst those that the deportation process was started. The criminality statistics is skewed towards those that has committed crime, because of this.
Said in another way;
You’ll find a higher proportion of those that has committed a crime, amongst prisoners.
Same thing with deportations. Being convicted of a a crime (standing in front of a judge) means that the government knows who you are and can deport you, and can deport you because of the crime.
The statistics are notable because even with this skew, they are still in the minority of the population.
But JD Vance said we are stopping ICE get rapists off the street..Duh
And the people who need to see and understand this most still won’t as the picture isn’t simple enough and we don’t have Special Agent Oso on hand to explain it to these mouth-breathers in 3 easy steps.
I have a question. Are all the numbers of the people in the above graphic illegally here in the United States or is there people that are wrongfully caught up who are legal citizens?
> Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025
Were they legally in the states? If not, why would it be weird to be targeted for deportation?
What’s the difference between the two “obstructing” crimes?
I wonder what the point of this is. US law with “criminal” “civil” “federal” confuses me. But should be irrelevant, no?
Is anyone arguing for keeping illegal immigrants inside a country just because they didn’t commit other crimes/civil/federal whatevers?
Sure there are cases where someone was maybe trafficked to the US so didn’t enter illegally. But hey, if that was me I’d be happy about deportation to free me from those chains and if I was free already I’d have gone to the police.
I’m all for immigration. But use the channels given by the country. Whatever they are.
Having criminal charges is irrelevant to being deported – that only requires illegal entry or overstaying one’s visa.
It’s like determining what percentage of drunk drivers also committed tax fraud. Interesting perhaps, but not really relevant for them losing their license
I mean it says conviction not charges, I get innocent until proven guilty and all that but they are already guilty for being here , they may have charges don’t clog the system up and get them out . I can’t believe people are dying on this hill .
Being in a country illegally is in fact a crime
Did most of the unvetted people that the Biden administration fast tracked into the US qualify for asylum?
https://preview.redd.it/0hsbynngn9lg1.png?width=1519&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff512392c993570dd59bbadfd2d9ea91279b4b79
Only good thing about posts like this is that it makes blocking the OP really easy.
Go be an illegal immigrant in the Nordic countries and see how fast you get deported lol.
Who cares, if they are here illegally then they need to go home and apply to come back through the proper legal channels. It is not a difficult concept to understand.
Breaking immigration laws is a criminal offense
BS. They are not immigrants.
your title is miss leading it should say most illegal immigrants had no criminal charges in country of origin