<h1>Immigration detention: majority of detainees lack criminal convictions despite rhetoric targeting the 'worst of the worst'.</h1> Federal immigration enforcement shows a majority of current ICE detainees lack criminal convictions: ICE data and supplementary datasets indicate most detainees have no known convictions or only pending charges, few are convicted of violent crimes, and many detained individuals were not assigned ICE threat levels. Arrests rose sharply after agency directives increasing daily arrest targets, increasing the processing of nonconvicted migrants even as officials assert a focus on serious offenders.