14,000 CONVICTED thugs and slimeballs who have committed MURDER have been allowed to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, and roam free to KILL AGAIN…And they will kill again, over and over.
ZOMG. The thing is, he seems to have the receipts. This number comes directly from a letter written by the acting director of ICE, which lays things out in a table:
There's the number in black-and-white: 13,099 noncitizen convicted murderers who aren't detained by ICE. But you might be interested to know a couple of things:
- This number isn't for the past three years. It's for all time and goes back more than 40 years.
- "Non-detained" means they aren't detained by ICE. Many or most of them are instead detained in prison. ICE has no idea how many.
- The total non-detained docket for all crimes increased 10% under Trump and 5% under Joe Biden.
- Murderers who have served their sentences and been released—an unknown number—are generally deported. But some countries won't take them, and the Supreme Court says they have to be allowed out.
That puts things in a whole different perspective, doesn't it? The actual number for the Biden administration might be in the dozens or even zero. But I hardly even blame Trump for this. I blame Patrick Lechleitner, acting director of ICE, who very deliberately omitted this context in his letter. It's hard to believe he didn't know perfectly well what he was doing.
Every law enforcement agency in the United States seems to be filled with fascists.
It's almost like there's . . . um, I dunno . . . a "deep state"?
+1
Your last sentence was the first thing I thought when I read the true story behind this BS claim.
The Acting Director needs to be the subject of an OPR investigation.
An intentional deception should force an honorable person to resign, emphasis on honorable.
Or better, Biden uses this as evidence of Lechleitner's incompetence and fires him
There’s always another James Comey waiting in the wings of federal law enforcement agencies to shit all over Democratic presidents and candidates in an election year.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website gives the numbers below for convictions for homicide/manslaughter for noncitizens. This doesn't fit with 13,099 noncitizen homicide/manslaughter at Kevin's ICE link. 13,099 implies hundreds of homicides per year. I can’t explain the CBP vs. ICE discrepancy. (FYI, there are about 18,000 murders in the US each year, and about 99% are committed by US citizens. Hmm, American citizens are the real crime problem. Trump’s poisonous words imply otherwise.)
FY18 --- 3
FY19 --- 3
FY20 --- 2
FY21 --- 3
FY22 -- 60
FY23 --- 62
FY24YTD --- 29
I thought the ICE numbers included crimes committed elsewhere by immigrants currently in the US.
The 13,000 include homicides in their home countries, and includes suspected (using the layman's definition) homicides, not just convicitions. Any gang member can be assumed to be a murderer simply through guilt by association
Senator Tom Cotton was spouting this non-sense on a Sunday talk show--without any push back.
Hahahaha! "Push back." What's that? The ethos in journalism today is "Get quotes. Wash hands."
CNN did a good fact-check on this over the weekend, for anyone looking for more background.
If Trump wants to go after Biden and Harris, he needs to explain why he didn't do anything about the hundreds of thousands on the list during his administration.
Also this:
It's not just Trump. Like most GOP crap, it's a coordinated attack built on lies and phony information, right on time for election season. Here's the scary NY Post front page: "15,000 Killer Migrants in the U.S."
I don't see how you can just put the blame on Lechleitner. His letter didn't come out of nowhere. They're not at all subtle about how they operate.
ETA:
Looks like CNN was one of KD's links above after all.
Fun how 13,099 becomes 14,000, even apart from all the other distortions. Why not 14 kajillion? It would sound more impressive.