Majority arrested by ICE in LA area have no criminal history, data shows

LOS ANGELES -- Since caller migration raids began, questions person been raised implicit who is being detained by national agents.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security present says much than 1,600 radical successful Southern California person been arrested arsenic of this past Sunday.

So, who precisely is getting stopped?

The latest information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows that 56,397 immigrants nationwide are successful the agency's custody arsenic of June 15. Of those successful custody, 46% had nary transgression past astatine the clip of their detainment.

The caller migration raids successful the Los Angeles country picked up connected June 6. In the L.A. area, determination were 722 ICE arrests successful the archetypal 10 days of June, according to the Deportation Data Project.

A full of 221 radical arrested - astir 30% - were convicted criminals. Eighty-four radical arrested (11.6%) had pending transgression charges.

Meanwhile, 417 of the radical arrested - astir 57% - had nary transgression past astatine the clip they were taken into custody, according to the data.

The immense bulk of those arrested, 82%, are men. Of those taken into custody, astir 48% are from Mexico, 15.5% are from Guatemala and astir 8% from El Salvador.

President Donald Trump's medication has aggressively stepped up migration arrests successful the L.A. country recently. Federal agents person been seen arresting and detaining radical astatine their workplaces, and Trump has deployed the National Guard and Marines aft protests broke out.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.