GOP, Trump distort data on migrants with criminal records to attack Harris
Immigration,Crime,Border Crisis,ICE,Migrants,Sexual Assault,Texas
The Trump campaign and allies of the former president are distorting official Homeland Security statistics on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, claiming that thousands of these migrants have come in during the Biden administration when, in reality, the numbers that they’re citing span decades. The data, which was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Congress late last week, shows there are 13,099 immigrants with homicide convictions who are not currently jailed by ICE. The 13,099 immigrants with murder convictions cited by Trump and his allies are part of ICE’s...
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