DHS rebuts report that ICE was told only to focus on criminals

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The Department of Homeland Security has denied a report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were recently instructed only to arrest illegal immigrants with criminal histories.

The DHS insisted in a post to X over the weekend that federal immigration officers will arrest and detain illegal immigrants regardless of their criminal status, following a report that only the “worst of the worst” would be targeted nationwide.

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