FACT CHECK: Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. Many of the individuals the media counts as 'non-criminals' are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, and foreign fugitives who just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S. ABC News (@ABC) Only 3% of individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first 14 months of the second Trump administration had a violent felony conviction, according to an ABC News analysis of government data.

The Department of Homeland Security claimed that nearly 70 percent of ICE arrests involved individuals charged or convicted of crimes in the United States, while ABC News reported that only 3 percent of those detained during the first 14 months of the Trump administration had violent felony convictions based on analysis of government data. The conflicting statistics reflect a fundamental dispute over how criminal records among detained immigrants are being counted and categorized by different parties.