American immigration lawyer Brad Bernstein has highlighted a shift in ICE arrest patterns under the Trump administration. Earlier, 46% of ICE arrests involved criminals. Now, only 28% do, he said. "If the idea is to get rid of criminals, that's not what's happening. But if the idea is to get rid of people who don't look like me, that's what is happening," Bernstein said. He explained many arrested have no criminal record, often only minor offenses like traffic tickets. In major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and Massachusetts, over half of ICE's arrests were people without any criminal history. In Washington DC, this figure rose to 84%. Violent crime convictions were very low, between 2 and 6 percent. Despite heavy police presence in raids, ICE is mainly arresting non-criminal undocumented immigrants. Bernstein said, "The new federal ICE crackdowns look like they're aimed at violent criminals, but the numbers tell an entirely different story." These raids intensified after a DC shooting led the government to halt immigration requests from 19 countries of concern. Some immigrants had citizenship ceremonies canceled and face uncertainty. Data from UC Berkeley's Deportation Data Project shows nearly 75,000 undocumented immigrants without criminal records were arrested from January to September 2017. In that period, ICE deported around 200,000 people, with total removals, including self-deportations, nearing 350,000. ICE continues mass arrests in cities, fueling fear among immigrant communities across the US.