White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried and failed yesterday to falsify data that show the number of illegal-alien rapists, murderers, and other dangerous criminals who roam American streets.
Though the data come directly from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jean-Pierre claimed that they are being “misrepresented.” And fact checks from the leftist mainstream media, she claimed, prove it.
As The New American reported last week, ICE data show that more than 650,000 illegal-alien criminals are running wild and free, including more than 13,000 convicted murderers.
Not surprisingly, new data reported in the Daily Mail show that criminal deportations have dropped almost 75 percent under the Biden-Harris administration.
KJP vs. Doocy
Jean-Pierre and Fox News’s Peter Doocy fought the battle of the numbers during a White House press briefing.
Given that “13,000 people who have been convicted of murder across the border illegally and are living among us,” Doocy asked, “how much danger are U.S. communities in right now?”
A Haitian immigrant whose countrymen are committing crimes, Jean-Pierre pulled the pin on a smoke grenade.
“I think it’s important to correct the record here,” Jean-Pierre said:
It’s been fact-checked by some of your colleagues here, by multiple outlets. That has been debunked on what has been falsely misrepresented, misrepresented here. So we have to call that out.
So, Americans are to believe that the numbers from ICE are another “debunked” conspiracy theory.
Doocy pressed forward. “Can you clarify what the misrepresentation is?” he inquired.
“If we’re going to report something, data that’s out there, we got to do it in a way that is not confusing the American people and certainly not lying,” Jean-Pierre said:
If you look at the total returns and removal of the past year, that has been higher than every year under the previous administration since 2010.
The numbers, however, are not confusing. They are straightforward. And they show that thugs, rapists, murderers are prowling in American cities and towns.
The Numbers
As The New American reported last week, citing ICE data released by U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas, more than 650,000 illegal-alien criminals are on American streets.
Broken down, they include those who have been convicted and those with pending criminal charges.
Convicted criminals:
Homicide: 13,099
Assault: 62,231
Sexual assault: 15,811
Sex offenses: 9,461
Criminally charged:
Homicide: 1,845
Assault: 42,915
Sexual assault: 4,250
Sex offenses: 2,650
As of July, an accompanying letter from a top ICE official explained, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency’s non-detained docket. Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.”
The official also explained that ICE officials can release illegals at their own discretion.
Deportations Way Down
Jean-Pierre’s denying the truth about the baleful results of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies comes at the same time other data show that the administration has just about given up on deporting illegal-alien criminals.
“The number of criminal illegal aliens removed from the United States has fallen 74 percent under the Biden-Harris administration, according to public numbers compiled by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement first provided to DailyMail.com,” the website reported:
Only 134,617 convicted criminal aliens were removed over the last three fiscal years under the Biden-Harris administration even as a flood of migrants continue making their way across the borders.
The numbers are no surprise to those who have watched the administration flagrantly rewrite and/or violate U.S. immigration law.
For instance, in his “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Laws,” published in September 2021, impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a federal court declared, unilaterally and illegally rewrote the nation’s immigration laws.
“A noncitizen who poses a current threat to public safety, typically because of serious criminal conduct, is a priority for apprehension and removal,” Mayorkas wrote. But “whether a noncitizen poses a current threat to public safety is not to be determined according to bright lines or categories. It instead requires an assessment of the individual and the totality of the facts and circumstances.”
Though an illegal alien’s crime or crimes might be “aggravating factors that militate in favor of enforcement action,” he wrote, “there can be mitigating factors that militate in favor of declining enforcement action.”
The list of “mitigating factors” is almost twice as long as the “aggravating factors,” which might explain the precipitous drop in criminal deportations. They included:
• advanced or tender age;
• lengthy presence in the United States;
• a mental condition that may have contributed to the criminal conduct, or a physical or mental condition requiring care or treatment;
• status as a victim of crime or victim, witness, or party in legal proceedings;
• the impact of removal on family in the United States, such as loss of provider or caregiver;
• whether the noncitizen may be eligible for humanitarian protection or other immigration relief;
• military or other public service of the noncitizen or their immediate family;
• time since an offense and evidence of rehabilitation;
• conviction was vacated or expunged.
So, perhaps, if a 50-year-old illegal-alien murderer is caring for his 80-year-old mother, the Biden-Harris administration won’t deport him.
Citing the Center for Immigration Studies, The New American reported the decline in deportations in December 2021, the end of the administration’s first full year.
“Under policies imposed by the Biden administration, removals dropped by 80 percent since last year’s low point during the pandemic lockdown, and by 90 percent since 2019, the last normal year for ICE operations,” CIS reported:
The number of aliens removed who had serious criminal convictions also has declined by over 50 percent from 2020 and by 65 percent since 2019.
