He Department of Security United States National (DHS) assured this Saturday that data about immigrants with a criminal history and under supervision of the country’s immigration agency, cited by former president and Republican candidate Donald trump and other conservative opinion leaders, are being “misunderstood.”
The data that has been repeated trump since Friday and which he reiterated this Saturday at a rally Wisconsin were contained in a letter published in X by Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales, and attributed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICEin English).
According to a spokesperson for the DHS to EFE, “the data of this letter are being misinterpreted. The data They go back decades; include individuals who entered the country in the last 40 years or more, and whose custody determination was made long before this Administration for the vast majority.
He ICE supervises the migrants who are in deportation proceedings and, according to the letter published by the congressman, there were 662,566 “non-citizens with criminal records” in his database. data currently detained by the agency or not being detained, of which trump had been echoed.
The spokesperson indicated that the data of the letter raised by the candidate is out of context, since “they include many (immigrants) who are under the jurisdiction of or currently incarcerated by federal, state, or local law enforcement partners.”
The data were used by trump or by opinion leaders like the billionaire elon Muskwhich today shared a Fox News segment on X that indicated, based on the same numbers, that more than 13,000 immigrants undocumented immigrants convicted of homicide and more than 15,000 of rape are on the streets, something that would contradict the clarification made today by the DHS.
trump used those this Saturday data to feed the fear of immigrants irregulars at a rally in Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin), a town that recently experienced a case of violence by an alleged member of the Venezuelan gang of the Tren de Aragua.
“Yesterday we finally saw the numbers (about immigration and criminality), although the fake media turns off the cameras when I say so. “They don’t want anyone to know,” he said. trump at his rally, despite the fact that several studies from American universities have shown that the rate of criminality between immigrants is lower than in the general population.
Immigration as a weapon electoral
- The politician again used the immigration as a weapon electoral to accuse the Democratic side of opening the border with Mexico and, specifically, its rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, of allowing the country to be filled with “criminals” and “animals.”
- “Today, I make this promise before you: I will liberate Wisconsin from this massive migrant invasion of murderers, rapists, ruffians, drug sellers and evil gang members, we are going to liberate our country,” he said, growing up before a cheering crowd.
As of August 2024, the Department of State has deportee or rejected more than 700,000 people in the previous 12 months, the highest annual number since 2010, and since the presidential proclamation last June some 140,000 have been returned to more than 144 countries, including repatriation flights.
Since January 2021, when Democrat Joe Bidenthat agency has expelled from the US to 180,000 non-US people with criminal convictions.
