By Ben Warren, Apurva Mahajan, MediaNews Group

More than six months into a national crackdown on illegal immigration touted as targeting violent offenders, immigrants who have never been convicted of a crime now make up the majority of those arrested by Detroit’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

Close to two-thirds or 65% of the more than 3,100 people the Detroit ICE office arrested from January through late July of this year either had pending charges or were never charged with a crime, according to a national deportation database analyzed by The Detroit News.

Last year, more than half of all immigrants detained by the agency were convicted criminals.

The News analyzed arrests, detention requests and deportations handled by ICE’s Detroit field office using data c

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