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Fewer than 14% of the nearly 400,000 immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Trump’s first year after returning to office were charged with or convicted of violent crimes, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.
The previously unreported DHS data offers the clearest picture so far of the individuals ICE has apprehended as part of the administration’s sweeping deportation efforts nationwide.
These internal figures appear to challenge repeated claims by the Trump administration that its immigration enforcement campaign is chiefly focused on removing dangerous, violent offenders living in the country without legal status—individuals Mr. Trump and his aides have often described as the “worst of the worst.”
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