The Government Is Lying to You About Who ICE Is Arresting
TL;DR
ICE officers have committed verified crimes including murder, rape, sexual coercion, domestic violence, corruption, and systematic civil rights violations. Meanwhile, 65% of people arrested by ICE have no criminal convictions whatsoever, and 93% have never been convicted of violent offenses. The reality is that ICE is targeting peaceful families and workers while its own agents commit serious crimesâthe exact opposite of making America safer or greater.
Article Outline
I. Sexual Assault and Coercion by ICE Officers
Andrew Golobic: 12 years for coercing sex from vulnerable women
David Corvell: Sexually abused detainee, faces 15 years
Kevin Taylor: 5-15 years for sexually assaulting minors
Pattern of abuse of authority over vulnerable people
II. Murder and Unlawful Killings
Jonathan Ross shoots RenĂŠe Good, a U.S. citizen mother and poet
Video contradicts self-defense claims
Government blocking state investigation
III. Corruption and Abuse of Authority
Henry Yau: Fabricated arrests for hire, $10M fraud scheme
Identity theft of 27 individuals
Offering arrests as favors to friends
IV. Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes
Samuel Saxon: Decades-long pattern of abuse, 23 police calls in one year
Breaking victim's pelvis, repeated strangulation
Federal agents committing the crimes they claim to prevent
V. Systematic Civil Rights Violations
Mass warrantless arrests without probable cause
Deceptive "ruses" taught at ICE Academy
Wrongful arrests and deportations of U.S. citizens
Three U.S. citizen children deported, including cancer patient
VI. Current Scale of Enforcement Against Non-Criminals
65% of ICE arrests involve people with no criminal convictions
93% never convicted of violent offenses
Nearly 75,000 arrests of people with clean records in 2025
The reality behind the rhetoric
Who ICE Is Really Arresting: The Truth About "Criminal Aliens"
A Conversation We Need to Have
If you've been told that ICE is out there arresting dangerous criminalsâgang members, drug dealers, violent offendersâand making our communities safer, I need you to take a breath and look at something with me. Not because I want to attack you or make you feel foolish, but because what's actually happening is so far from what we've been told that it demands we pause and reckon with the truth.
I know you love this country. I know you want to keep your family safe. I know you believe in law and order, in doing things the right way, in protecting American citizens. Those aren't bad instincts. They're human instincts. They're good instincts.
But what if I told you that the very agency claiming to act on those instincts is doing the opposite? What if the numbersâthe cold, hard, verified government dataâshowed that ICE isn't making us safer at all, but is instead tearing apart peaceful families while its own officers commit heinous crimes?
You deserve to know the truth. America deserves better than what's happening in our name.
The Numbers Don't Lie, Even When Politicians Do
Here's what the official data shows: As of June 2025, 65 percent of people taken into ICE detentionâ133,687 human beingsâhad no criminal convictions whatsoever.
Read that again. Nearly two out of every three people arrested.
Not "suspected" of crimes. Not "charged" with crimes. No criminal convictions. Period.
It gets worse. More than 93 percent of people arrested by ICE were never convicted of any violent offenses. In the first nine months of the current administration, ICE arrested nearly 75,000 people with completely clean criminal records.
These aren't the dangerous criminals you've been told about on TV. These aren't the "bad hombres" or gang members or drug traffickers that justified all of this in your mind. These are construction workers. Restaurant cooks. Farmhands. Nannies. People who've been here for years, sometimes decades, working hard, paying taxes through ITINs, raising American children, going to church, coaching Little League.
They're people just like you.
What You've Been Told vs. What's Actually Happening
The rhetoric has been relentless: ICE is protecting Americans from violent criminals who've invaded our country. Every speech, every press conference, every social media post from administration officials hammers this message home. They want you scared. They want you to believe there's an army of dangerous criminals lurking in every city, and only aggressive enforcement can save us.
But when you look at who ICE is actually arrestingânot who they say they're arresting, but who they're actually arrestingâthe story crumbles.
Scenario One: The Nightclub Raid
Let me tell you about G.R.R. He was at a nightclub in Colorado when ICE agents flooded the building with tear gas and flash bangs like they were raiding a terrorist compound. G.R.R., terrified, hid under a car. An officer found him, ordered him out at gunpoint. He complied immediatelyâhands up, non-threatening, doing exactly what he was told.
The officer shoved him to the ground anyway. G.R.R.'s hand was sliced open, bleeding badly. An EMT said he needed stitches. The ICE officer slapped a band-aid on it, took his phone and wallet, found a Mexican consular card, and arrested him.
Did this officer investigate whether G.R.R. was a danger to anyone? No. Did he check if G.R.R. had been living in Colorado for years, working, contributing to the community? No. Did he care that G.R.R. needed medical attention? No.
G.R.R. sat in detention for 50 days. Fifty days away from work, away from family, away from his life. For what? For being at a nightclub while Latino.
Scenario Two: The College Student
Or consider Natasha Goncalves. A college student on scholarship with a stable home and family. She was stopped, arrested, and detained for 15 days. ICE made zero effort to determine if she was a flight risk. If they had bothered to lookâto do even the most basic investigationâthey would have immediately seen she was a student with deep ties to the community, attending classes, living with family, building a future.
But they didn't care about any of that. They saw someone they could arrest, so they arrested her.
She lost two weeks of her life. Two weeks of classes. Two weeks of work. Two weeks of freedom. For absolutely nothing.
Scenario Three: The Children
And then there are the children. In April 2025, ICE deported at least three U.S. citizen childrenâages 2, 4, and 7. American citizens. Born here. Constitutional rights. Didn't matter.
ICE held their families incommunicado, refused to let them speak to lawyers, and deported them. One of these childrenâan American citizen, rememberâwas suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer. ICE deported this sick child without medication and without giving the family any way to consult with their treating physicians.
Imagine being that parent. Your child has cancer. You're fighting for their life. And the United States government rips them away from their doctors, their treatment, their chance at survival, and dumps them in another country.
Is that making America great? Is that protecting American citizens? That was an American citizen. A child. With cancer.
The Cognitive Dissonance We Must Confront
I need you to sit with something uncomfortable for a moment. You've been told this is about law and order. You've been told this is about protecting Americans. You've been told the people being arrested are criminals, dangers, threats.
But 65 percent have no criminal record.
You've been told we're going after violent offenders, the worst of the worst.
But 93 percent have no violent crime convictions.
You've been told ICE agents are heroes doing dangerous work to keep us safe.
But let me tell you about the ICE agents themselvesâthe ones doing the arresting, the ones wrapped in the flag of "law and order."
When the Enforcers Are the Criminals
Andrew Golobic was an ICE deportation officer for 14 years. You know what he did with that authority? He sexually coerced vulnerable immigrant women under his supervision. He told them if they didn't have sex with him, he'd use his power over their immigration cases against them. When federal investigators caught on, he lied to obstruct the investigation. He was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.
Jonathan Ross was an ICE agent who shot and killed RenĂŠe Goodâa 37-year-old American citizen, mother of three, and award-winning poetâin Minneapolis in January 2026. Video footage shows RenĂŠe trying to drive away. Ross positioned himself in front of her vehicle and shot her three times as she was steering away from him. Then ICE agents blocked medical personnel from giving her immediate aid.
The Trump administration called RenĂŠe a "domestic terrorist" for trying to drive away from armed men surrounding her car. They claimed Ross acted in self-defense. But the video shows her wheels turned away from him when he fired. Experts analyzed the footage: at the moment he shot her, "his legs appeared to be clear of the vehicle".
RenĂŠe Good was a poet. A mother. An American. And ICE killed her, then slandered her memory.
Henry Yau was an ICE supervisory deportation officer who participated in a $10 million bank fraud scheme. Someone was about to expose the fraud, so Yau was paid to arrest that person to shut them up. He fabricated the arrest. He also stole identity information on 27 people from federal databases, tipped off an FBI target, and offered to arrest people as favors for friends.
Samuel Saxon was an ICE agent in Cincinnati for more than 20 years. Police were called to his residence 23 times in one year for domestic violence. He put his girlfriend in the hospital with a broken pelvis. He was caught on video with her in a chokehold, dragging her down a hallway, screaming at her. Prosecutors described it as a "yearslong pattern of escalating violence".
Kevin Taylor was an ICE agent convicted of sexually assaulting two minors. He got 5 to 15 years in prison.
David Corvell, another ICE officer, sexually abused a detainee and faces up to 15 years in prison.
These aren't isolated incidents. These are the people telling you they're protecting you from dangerous criminals.
The Moral Math That Doesn't Add Up
Let's do some moral accounting here, because this is important.
ICE is arresting 133,687 people with no criminal convictionsâpeople who've committed no crimes, hurt no one, just trying to live and work and raise their families.
Meanwhile, ICE's own officers are:
Raping and sexually coercing vulnerable people
Murdering American citizens
Committing domestic violence so severe victims end up hospitalized
Running fraud schemes
Fabricating arrests for money
Beating people during raids
So let me ask you directly: Who's making America less safe? The construction worker with no criminal record trying to feed his kids? Or the ICE officer breaking his girlfriend's pelvis?
Who's the threat to your family? The restaurant cook who's been here 15 years paying taxes? Or the ICE supervisor fabricating arrests for $20,000?
Who's the danger to American values? The college scholarship student? Or the ICE agent who shot an unarmed mother and then let her bleed out?
This Isn't About Border SecurityâIt's About Power
I know some of you are thinking: "But they're here illegally. They broke the law."
Okay. Let's talk about that.
First, unlawful presence is a civil violation, not a criminal one. It's in the same legal category as a parking ticket or breaking an HOA rule. We don't send SWAT teams with flash bangs for parking tickets.
Second, many of these people entered legally and overstayed visasâsomething that happens when life gets complicated, when family emergencies arise, when bureaucratic processes take years. They're not cartels. They're not smugglers. They're people who fell out of status in a mind-numbingly complex immigration system.
Third, and this is crucial: even if someone violated immigration law, that doesn't strip them of human rights. It doesn't make it okay to tear gas a nightclub and slice someone's hand open. It doesn't justify deporting a child with cancer. It doesn't excuse refusing medical care or fabricating charges or killing someone who's trying to drive away.
The punishment has to fit the violation. You don't get the death penalty for jaywalking. You don't get 50 days in detention for going to a nightclub. You don't get your U.S. citizen child deported because a paperwork mistake.
Unless this was never really about the law at all. Unless it was always about power. About who gets to stay and who gets removed. About who counts as human and who doesn't.
The Lie You've Been Sold
Here's the truth they don't want you to know: undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. Study after study confirms this. They're not making your neighborhood dangerousâstatistically, they're making it safer.
The people being arrested aren't the criminals you've been warned about. 93 percent have no violent crime convictions. The vast majority are working people with families, roots in communities, children in schools.
You've been sold a lie. You've been told to fear your neighbor, the guy who mows your lawn, the woman who cleans the hotel, the man who picks the food you eat. You've been told they're dangerous, they're criminals, they're invaders.
But when you look at the actual dataânot the rhetoric, not the fear-mongering, but the dataâit falls apart completely.
What Greatness Actually Looks Like
I want you to think about what made America great in the first place. Was it cruelty? Was it tearing families apart? Was it deporting sick children? Was it arresting people at church or in their homes or at college?
Or was it something else?
Was it the idea that everyone deserves dignity? That we judge people by their character, not where they were born? That we're a nation of second chances, of opportunity, of refuge?
Emma Lazarus wrote words that appear on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." That's what people around the world thought America was. A place where hard work mattered more than bloodline. Where you could build a better life if you were willing to sacrifice and contribute.
What's happening now isn't making America great. It's making America cruel. It's making America a place where:
College students get arrested for being the wrong ethnicity
Children with cancer get deported
Peaceful workers get flash-banged at nightclubs
Families are ripped apart even though no crimes were committed
The enforcers themselves are rapists and murderers and frauds
Is that what greatness looks like to you?
A Plea to Your Conscience
I'm not asking you to abandon your principles. I'm not asking you to support "open borders" or lawlessness or anything else you've been told is the only alternative.
I'm asking you to look at what's actually happening. To see the human cost of policies being enacted in your name, with your support, funded by your tax dollars.
I'm asking you to ask yourself: Is this who we want to be?
When you meet your makerâor when you look your grandchildren in the eyeâwill you be proud of what happened? Will you say, "Yes, we arrested 133,687 people who'd committed no crimes, we deported children with cancer, we let agents rape and murder and face no consequences, but it was worth it"?
Or will you wish you'd spoken up? Will you wish you'd looked at the numbers, really looked at them, and demanded something better?
This Isn't PartisanâIt's Human
This isn't about red or blue. This isn't about winning or losing political arguments. This is about right and wrong. This is about whether we're going to be a country that treats peopleâall peopleâwith basic dignity and justice.
If ICE were truly focused on violent criminals and public safety threats, I think many of us could get behind that. But that's not what's happening. The data makes it crystal clear: 65 percent of arrests are people with no criminal record at all.
That's not law enforcement. That's not public safety. That's terror. That's using the power of the state to harass and traumatize and exile people whose only "crime" was trying to build a better life.
And while this is happening, ICE's own agents are committing sexual assault, murder, fraud, and domestic violenceâreal crimes, with real victims, causing real harm.
If you truly believe in law and order, shouldn't you be outraged that the people enforcing the law are breaking it in the most heinous ways imaginable? Shouldn't you demand accountability?
What You Can Do
You don't have to agree with everything I'm saying. You don't have to suddenly support every immigration policy proposal from the other side.
But you can do this: Look at the numbers yourself. Don't take my word for it. Go find the official data. Look at who's actually being arrested. Look at what ICE agents have actually been convicted of.
And then ask yourself: Does this align with what I've been told? Does this match the narrative I've been fed? Does this reflect the values I hold?
If the answer is noâand I believe in my heart it will be no for many of youâthen speak up. Tell your representatives this isn't what you want. Tell your community this isn't acceptable. Tell your family that tearing apart peaceful families while federal agents commit rape and murder isn't making America great.
It's doing the opposite.
America is great when we live up to our ideals. When we treat people with dignity. When we demand justice, not just for people who look like us or were born in the same place we were, but for everyone.
That's the greatness worth fighting for. Not this. Never this.
A Final Word
I know this is hard to read. I know it challenges things you might have believed deeply. That's uncomfortable. I get it.
But uncomfortable truths are still truths. And we owe it to ourselvesâwe owe it to the legacy we leaveâto face them.
Sixty-five percent with no criminal record. Ninety-three percent with no violent crime convictions. Children with cancer deported. Mothers shot. Students arrested. Peaceful workers terrorized.
This is what's happening in America right now, in 2026, in your name.
Is this the country you want to live in? Is this the America you want your children to inherit?
Or is it time to demand something betterâsomething actually great?
The choice, as it always has been, is ours.















