Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to claim it only arrests “the worst of the worst” despite evidence to the contrary. Friday ICE provided, under court order, a list of 614 Chicago area arrestees that contained only 16 who ICE claims present a “high public safety risk.”
You can determine for yourself if this describes “high public safety risk.” Count the convictions:
Of the 16 arrestees with criminal histories — or about 2.6% of the 614 people — five involved domestic battery, two were related to drunken driving, and one allegedly had an unidentified criminal history in another country.
One person was deemed a national security risk, another had a narcotics conviction, and five more had been accused of various forms of battery, including two involving guns, the records indicated.
No one had any convictions for murder or rape.
Meanwhile, the other 598 people on the list had no criminal history listed at all, yet 42 of those were still classified by the DHS as having a “high” security risk. The reasons for that assessment were not explained (emphasis added).
Infamous Border Control Cmdr. Gregory Bovino now says that the crime is “taking jobs from Americans.”
The list of 614 is part of a set of about 1,800 individuals who were arrested between June 11 and October 7, of which “only about 750 of them remain in the country.” If the ratio of criminal convictions is comparable, that means it is probably that only one of those deported had a criminal conviction — and it wasn’t murder or rape.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings had directed ICE to provide, by Friday, the status and flight risk of those arrested during “Operative Midway Blitz.” This report is the result.
By this coming Wednesday, Nov. 19, DHS must give the judge a current list of all the people both Border Patrol and ICE have arrested in Chicago, which is at least 3,000.
The judge made these rulings because the Trump Administration violated a consent decree in Illinois that limits warrantless arrests. I’ve read nothing that suggests any federal official will face any penalty for that violation. Perhaps those arrested can sue?
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