{"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

ALSO AT FAIR: Other Media Outlets Misreport ICE Arrests<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While reporting the deportation of 256,085\nillegal aliens last year (up from 226,119 in 2017 and 240,255 in 2016), ICE\nsaid: \u201cWe continue to prioritize [our]limited resources on public safety\nthreats and immigration violators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the media want to practice journalism that\nserves the public interest, they ought to objectively examine those strained\nresources and the hurdles that ICE confronts in carrying out its mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the proliferation of so-called sanctuary policies<\/a>, more jurisdictions and local law-enforcement agencies have stopped communicating with ICE. That lack of cooperation undermines ICE\u2019s ability to detain illegal aliens when they are released from local jails. This makes ICE\u2019s job more difficult, more resource-intensive and, ultimately, less efficient \u2013 all of which helps explain why arrests were down 12 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the bigger story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Playing a numbers game, USA Today reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u201cset a record for arrests of undocumented immigrants who don\u2019t have a criminal record.\u201d The claim, which suggests that \u201cnon-criminals\u201d are being swept up en masse, is as politically correct as the \u201cundocumented\u201d moniker the newspaper applies to illegal aliens. ICE\u2019s Fiscal<\/p>\n

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