![[OC] U.S. Border Patrol Arrests of Individuals with Criminal Convictions FY17 - FY26 YTD](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/jm5x402bsbng1-1024x660.png "[OC] U.S. Border Patrol Arrests of Individuals with Criminal Convictions FY17 – FY26 YTD")
U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Alien Arrests reflects individuals arrested by Border Patrol who had prior criminal conviction(s). FY25 (Oct. 2024-Sept. 2025) saw a 48% reduction from FY24.
*Edited to add: The crime of Illegal Entry/Re-Entry accounted for 56% of Criminal Arrests in FY25.
Tool used: Claude
Posted by chabhoi
5 Comments
Yea I went through that data a while back and found that under Trump ICE basically stopped functioning as it should have.
ICE Detainees Population:
01/22/2021 Convicted Criminals 71% Pending Criminal Charges 24%
01/16/2022 Convicted Criminals 83% Pending Criminal Charges 12%
01/15/2023 Convicted Criminals 73% Pending Criminal Charges 23%
01/13/2024 Convicted Criminals 65% Pending Criminal Charges 24%
01/12/2025 Convicted Criminals 62% Pending Criminal Charges 32%
11/30/2025 Convicted Criminals 30% Pending Criminal Charges 29%
ICE Detainees Population:
01/22/2021 Convicted Criminals 71% Pending Criminal Charges 24%
01/16/2022 Convicted Criminals 83% Pending Criminal Charges 12%
01/15/2023 Convicted Criminals 73% Pending Criminal Charges 23%
01/13/2024 Convicted Criminals 65% Pending Criminal Charges 24%
01/12/2025 Convicted Criminals 62% Pending Criminal Charges 32%
11/30/2025 Convicted Criminals 30% Pending Criminal Charges 29%
Arrests of Criminal Aliens for Murder:
2017- 3
2018 -3
2019- 2
2020-3
2021-60
2022-62
2023-29
2024-29
2025-23
2026-4
Arrests of Criminal Aliens for sexual assault:
2017- 137
2018-80
2019-58
2020-156
2021-488
2022-365
2023-284
2024-221
2025-127
2026-17
Interesting seeing the spike from FY21 through FY24 and then the drop in FY25. I’d be curious to see this normalized against total encounters or crossings, because raw counts alone can shift a lot depending on enforcement levels and traffic volume.
The chart might be more flat if were a percentage of arrests relative to the number of encounters or illegal entries….
Their job isn’t to catch criminals. It’s to prevent people from illegally crossing the border. Also everyone who crosses the border between ports of entry commits a Federal offense. It just usually isn’t charged because the courts can’t handle all the cases. That’s the whole reason for the civil immigration court system.
Without looking deeply at the data, it would make sense for attempted border crossings to decrease if people know they’re more likely to get deported or otherwise not have a great time once they’re in.