Trump Crackdown Snares More Migrants With No US Criminal Records

President Donald Trump, who has vowed to target the “worst of the worst” in his mass deportation campaign, is overseeing a crackdown that’s increasingly ensnaring foreigners without US criminal records.

About 37% of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in July were of people with no US criminal convictions or pending charges, according to federal data compiled by the University of California at Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project and updated this week. That’s up from 13% in December, the last full month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

“It’s impossible both to have mass deportations and to concentrate deportations on the worst of ...