DHS Disputes CBS Report Saying Under 14% of Trump‑Era ICE Arrestees Have Violent Convictions
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CBS reported that an internal DHS document shows less than 14% of immigrants arrested by ICE during President Trump’s first year back in office had U.S. violent criminal records, a figure the network used to question the administration’s claim it was prioritizing removals of “the most dangerous criminals.” DHS and ICE officials, including Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, pushed back on social media saying CBS’s metric “misreads” the data by excluding pending charges, prior convictions and foreign convictions (and pointing to offenses CBS labeled non‑violent), and urged the statistic be reframed to reflect that roughly 70% have pending charges or prior convictions.
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