ICE cowboys have arrested and detained only a small fraction of the undocumented immigrants already known to the agency as having been convicted of sexual assault and homicide, internal ICE data shows. Via NBC News:
The data is a tally of every person booked by ICE from Oct. 1 through May 31, part of which was during the Biden administration. It shows a total of 185,042 people arrested and booked into ICE facilities during that time; 65,041 of them have been convicted of crimes. The most common categories of crimes they committed were immigration and traffic offenses.
Almost half of the people currently in ICE custody have neither been convicted of nor charged with any crime, other ICE data shows.
Last fall, ICE told Congress that 13,099 people convicted of homicide and 15,811 people convicted of sexual assault were on its non-detained docket, meaning it knew who they were but did not have them in custody. A spokesperson said at the time that ICE had some information about but did not know the exact whereabouts of all the immigrants on the non-detained docket and that some could have left the United States or could be in prison.
Well! We can all rest easier, knowing that those big manly ICE men are putting all the people gliding through stop signs or forgetting to file paperwork in detention, generating more revenue for private prisons run by major Trump donors!
The show must go on.
