EXCLUSIVE — The large majority of illegal immigrant arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are criminals who have been convicted or those with pending charges for criminal offenses, according to new data provided to the Washington Examiner.
The Trump administration arrested 595,000 illegal immigrants between Jan. 20 and Dec. 11, according to the Department of Homeland Security. ICE, the federal agency tasked with interior immigration enforcement and deportations, revealed that 70%, or about 416,000, have “criminal convictions or pending criminal charges just in the U.S.,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement.
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