No. of Recommendations: 11
What percentage of the people they're picking up are keeping their court dates?Probably a fair amount. They don't report figures, of course, for the specific folks they've been detaining during the last twelve months. But undocumented folks typically have fairly high rates of court date compliance (upper 70s to 90%, depending on the estimate, one link below).
The administration has been fairly indiscriminate in who they detain. The CATO Institute took a look at who ICE was grabbing, and found that the majority had no criminal convictions at all, and that barely 7% had any convictions for violent crimes. So there's no
particular reason to expect that the compliance rate of the people that they're picking up is going to deviate particularly from the general compliance rate, because they're
not concentrating on the "worst of the worst."
And of course, the fact that they've been sending ICE agents to courthouses to specifically detain folks who are there to attend their hearings is going to skew the proportion in favor of getting more compliant folks than less ones.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/26/...https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-...
