White House pushes back on ICE data on 13,000 illegal immigrant murderers

By Naomi Lim

Published September 30, 2024 5:20pm ET

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre downplayed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data shared with Congress last week that found more than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide, either in the United States or abroad, are not in federal detention.

Jean-Pierre criticized reporting of the data as a “false representation” of the facts, contending it was “important to correct the record” and “call that out.”