Texas among top states for individual DACA requestors with an arrest record

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released data from 2012 through October 2019 regarding arrest data for requestors of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The report shows that 79,398 DACA requestors approved with a prior arrest comprise 10.38% of the 765,166 DACA requestors approved.

The states of California, Texas and Illinois top the list of  DACA requestors arrested by last known state of residence according to the analysis below:

Arizona, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, New York and New Jersey comprise the secondary tier. 

77,833 DACA requestors were denied or terminated from the program; over 38% or 30,132 of them with an arrest.

The USCIS report identifies only arrests, not convictions.

Of nearly 770,500 DACA requestors 43,662 had more than one arrest or apprehension, including  7926 for theft/ larceny, 6729 for battery & assault, 3053 for obstruction & false claims and 974 arrests for weapons-related charges.

Read the report here, including the notes with additional detail on how arrests are defined and offenses categorized.