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Pototan

(3,035 posts)
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 08:19 AM 8 hrs ago

Less than 14% of ICE arrests are violent criminals

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.

The official statistics contained in the DHS document, which had not been previously reported publicly, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's far-reaching deportation operations across the U.S.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-records-trump-first-year/
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Less than 14% of ICE arrests are violent criminals (Original Post) Pototan 8 hrs ago OP
This surfered 8 hrs ago #1
The media will never call it "ethnic cleansing". unblock 7 hrs ago #2
But 100 percent of those making the arrests Johonny 7 hrs ago #3
I read the post title superpatriotman 7 hrs ago #4
I don't believe they arrested 6,160 violent criminals either. Emile 7 hrs ago #5
This statistic was put forth by the DHS, a tool of the Trump administration. patphil 5 hrs ago #6
Id be shocked if that number held up to scrutiny quakerboy 4 hrs ago #7
Of course. OldBaldy1701E 3 hrs ago #8

patphil

(8,845 posts)
6. This statistic was put forth by the DHS, a tool of the Trump administration.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 11:29 AM
5 hrs ago

my guess is that the number is a lot less than they are saying.
In any event, if it's true, that means 86% of the people they kidnapped weren't criminals.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,667 posts)
8. Of course.
Mon Feb 9, 2026, 01:26 PM
3 hrs ago

You don't think that those goon squad wannabes are going to actually risk their lives for something, do you?

Going after criminals is far too dangerous. It is much better to go get Consuelo the maid because she dared to speak Spanish in public while walking down the street with her two kids.

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