{"id":21282,"date":"2019-03-25T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21282"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:42:12","slug":"medias-criminal-neglect-on-ice-arrests-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/25\/medias-criminal-neglect-on-ice-arrests-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Media\u2019s Criminal Neglect on ICE Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Playing a numbers game, USA Today<\/a> reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u201cset a record for arrests of undocumented immigrants who don\u2019t have a criminal record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The claim, which suggests that \u201cnon-criminals\u201d\nare being swept up en masse, is as politically correct as the \u201cundocumented\u201d\nmoniker the newspaper applies to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ICE\u2019s Fiscal Year 2018 report<\/a>, from which USA Today gleaned its story line, tells the fuller story: \u201c[As in FY2017,] nine out of 10 ICE arrests had criminal conviction(s), pending charge(s), were ICE fugitives or illegally re-entered the country after previously being removed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Common sense would include all these\nindividuals as criminal actors. Media outlets weave a misleading narrative by\ncounting only the first category and excluding the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fortunately, ICE frames the big picture. As\nNathalie Asher, acting head of the agency\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations\ndivision, aptly put it: \u201cOne hundred percent of those arrested are immigration\nviolators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n