A large share of people arrested by immigration agents in Oregon this year have no criminal record and most of those with convictions faced prosecution for nonviolent crimes, new federal data shows.

The data, released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and published this week by the Deportation Data Project , shows 294 of 644 people arrested in Oregon in the Trump administration crackdown had no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges and that their arrests have accelerated in recent months.

The data shows only about a third of the people arrested in Oregon from Jan. 20 through mid-October had been convicted of a crime.

And less than 10 percent had been convicted of a violent crime, including two homicides, two kidnappings and three robberies.

That contradicts the o

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