--- title: ICE: Immigration Arrests Up Nearly 40% Under Donald Trump description: More than 41,000 have been arrested since President Donald Trump signed a pair of sweeping executive orders targeting illegal immigration canonical: https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T18:04:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:02:59.606Z article:section: Politics og:title: ICE Arrests of Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Up Nearly 40% Compared to Last Year og:description: More than 41,000 have been arrested since President Donald Trump signed a pair of sweeping executive orders targeting illegal immigration og:url: https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ICE Arrests of Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Up Nearly 40% Compared to Last Year twitter:description: More than 41,000 have been arrested since President Donald Trump signed a pair of sweeping executive orders targeting illegal immigration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # ICE Arrests of Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Up Nearly 40% Compared to Last Year > Sponsored content. 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I.C.E agents detained a 48-year-old father who had been in the United States for two decades while he dropping his daughters off at school in Los Angeles, California._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 17, 2017 6:04 PM UTC I.C.E agents detained a 48-year-old father who had been in the United States for two decades while he dropping his daughters off at school in Los Angeles, California. by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 17, 2017 6:04 PM UTC Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Wednesday that arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants are [up 37.6% compared](https://www.ice.gov/features/100-days) to this time in 2016\. More than 41,000 people have been arrested since President Donald Trump signed a [pair of sweeping executive orders](http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/) targeting illegal immigration. According to ICE, about 75% of the individuals arrested so far in 2017 were convicted criminals, some 30,473 people, but only about 2,700 of the convictions were violent crimes. President Trump has emphasized his interest in getting serious criminals found to be in the U.S. illegally out of the country, but data shows there has been an expansion in non-criminal arrests as well. “ICE agents and officers have been given clear direction to focus on threats to public safety and national security, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the arrest of convicted criminal aliens,” Acting Director of ICE Thomas Homan said in a statement. “However, when we encounter others who are in the country unlawfully, we will execute our sworn duty and enforce the law.” About 4,200 undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions were arrested during the same period, from late January until the end of April, in 2016\. So far in 2017, more than 10,800 non-criminal immigrants have been arrested. “I get asked a lot why we arrest somebody that’s not a criminal,” Homan told [_USA Today_](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/17/deportations-under-president-trump-undocumented-immigrants/101786264/). “Those who do enter the country illegally, they do violate the law, that is a criminal act.” Homan told [_USA Today_](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/17/deportations-under-president-trump-undocumented-immigrants/101786264/) that while arrests are up, actual removals are down 12% when compared to 2016\. As [TIME reported in late April](http://time.com/4759713/trump-100-days-arrests-undocumented-immigrants/?iid=sr-link5), removals take a while in part due to the backlogged immigration court system. Homan said other factors, including the drop in southern border crossings and the time it takes to deport people living in the U.S., also contribute to the statistic. ## Transcript [00:00] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:04] [ SOUND ] [00:09] [ FOREIGN ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ FOREIGN ] [ NOISE ] [00:30] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ NOISE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] [00:49] [ NOISE ] [ SOUND ] [ FOREIGN ] [ SOUND ] [00:54] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/"},"headline":"ICE Arrests of Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Up Nearly 40% Compared to Last Year","datePublished":"2017-05-17T18:04:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T09:02:59.606Z","description":"More than 41,000 have been arrested since President Donald Trump signed a pair of sweeping executive orders targeting illegal immigration","url":"https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/","keywords":["Immigration","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/immigration/","name":"Immigration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/","name":"ICE Arrests of Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Up Nearly 40% Compared to Last Year"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"An Immigrant Father Was Detained While Dropping His Daughters off at School","description":"I.C.E agents detained a 48-year-old father who had been in the United States for two decades while he dropping his daughters off at school in Los Angeles, California.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HEAfBOzZ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-03-03T20:04:35.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HEAfBOzZ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/","duration":"PT1M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4782643/ice-arrests-2017-donald-trump-immigration/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```