ICE is stepping up to correct a headline from CBS News about the number of criminal arrests made among illegal immigrants over the past year.
A CBS News report on Monday (headlined "Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows") claimed that fewer than 14% of 400,000 arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in President Donald Trump's first year in office had violent criminal records, which sounds like a small percentage, but it seems a stretch to imply that "violent criminals" are the only ones the agency should arrest.
ICE said Monday in response to the CBS report that in fact the number of criminals -- violent and non-violent -- among those arrested is about 70-percent.
ICE said that includes "individuals charged with drug trafficking, distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling" and other crimes, and including pending charges or prior convictions, not one of which would be tolerated among applicants for legal immigration into the US.