'13,099' Claims Thoroughly Debunked

Over at Capitalism Magazine is a thorough debunking of the latest hokum Donald Trump is throwing around to gin up anti-immigration hysteria.

The number comes from a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding how many noncitizen criminals are facing deportation.

Everything else apparently comes from misunderstanding of the data or downright fabrication. Cato's Alex Nowrasteh debunks the following untrue claims:

• The 13,099 non-detained migrants convicted of homicide are free to roam the United States.
• The small number of migrant murderers who are not in prison were released willy-nilly.
• These 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide committed their crimes recently.
• All these migrants were convicted for homicides committed in the United States.

Nowrasteh makes short work of the first claim:

Cropped from image by Nitish Meena, via Unsplash, license.

... Migrants incarcerated for homicide are considered "non-detained" by ICE when they are in state or federal prisons. When ICE uses the term "non-detained," they mean not currently detained by ICE. In other words, the migrant murderers included in the letter are overwhelmingly in prison serving their sentences. After they serve their sentences, the government transfers them onto ICE's docket for removal from the United States.

This alone should cause almost anyone to wonder how stupid or dishonest Donald Trump is, and question Harris's competence, given how easy it would be to answer his claims. But, alas, Harris has "struggl[ed] to respond."

-- CAV