More than six months into a national crackdown on illegal immigration touted as targeting violent offenders, immigrants who have never been convicted of a crime now make up the majority of those arrested by Detroit's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.
Close to two-thirds or 65% of the more than 3,100 people the Detroit ICE office arrested from January through late July of this year either had pending charges or were never charged with a crime, according to a national deportation database analyzed by The Detroit News.