criminal record

noun

: a known record of having been arrested in the past for committing a crime

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Underlying the tension between ICE and members of the public is a fundamental fact: ICE is arresting a record number of people who have no criminal record. Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2025 Under Trump, more than 70% of those seized in these disruptive raids have no criminal record at all, and many more have only minor traffic or other offenses. Jim Newton, Mercury News, 27 June 2025 What To Know The Trump administration came under mounting pressure from both the courts and Democratic lawmakers to return the Salvadoran immigrant, who had been living in Maryland since entering the U.S. without legal status in 2011, but had no criminal record. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025 Now, as hundreds more agents have been dispatched to immigration enforcement, those officials worry that the new task forces will focus on rounding up undocumented immigrants who have any sort of criminal record at the cost of more significant organized crime investigations. Tim Golden, ProPublica, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for criminal record

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“Criminal record.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criminal%20record. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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