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Artisanally-Craftyed Narratives – CBS NEWS

Classic example of making statistics say whatever you please.

It has been a long-running argument in the press that ICE and DHS are not detaining a proper percentage of illegal aliens with criminal histories. Not that this was a prerequisite for any illegals to be removed, but they cling to the pledge made to target the worst offenders.

CBS News came out with an analysis provided by DHS and declared that a paltry number of those detained — 14 percent — have violent criminal records. 

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained… pic.twitter.com/Q8JfTxvwkU

This struck us as a bit of convenient qualifying for the sake of measurement, and DHS lent the perspective needed for this claim. It seems that resting on the word “violent” was the first way the network pared down the totals.

Drug trafficking, Distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling are all categorized as “non violent crimes.”

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