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Rocky's avatar

Let me help CBS with their numbers: 60% of law-breaking illegal immigrants arrested by ICE had criminal charges or convictions including thousands with violent criminal records and hundreds with gang affiliations.

Larrd's avatar
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"Of the 60 percent who had been charged with a crime, only around 14 percent had a violent criminal record. Statistics from the document also showed that 2 percent of ICE arrests in the same time period involved people with alleged gang affiliations."

The stat is reported incorrectly. The CBS story linked to states it's 14 percent of the total, which is 400K, not 14 percent of the 60 percent.

Fourteen percent of 400K is 56,000 violent criminals off the streets of America. I'd call that a pretty successful operation. I have to wonder if they consider drug dealing or human trafficking or drunk driving violent crimes, as well. Of course the other 350K should be sent back, in any case.

Two percent of the arrests included charges of being in a gang. That part is phrased incorrectly above, as well. I doubt all folks in gangs, or affiliated with gangs, are charged with that when apprehended. I'm not sure being in a gang is even illegal.

Good old lefty journalists and editors. Always with the fuzzy math that only goes one way!

Speaking of lefty journalists, I have never heard of the Florida governor candidate who's got River's panties in a twist. I live in Florida, as well.

Noga Sklar's avatar

Bye bye ChatGPT. The tool was my favorite and the only one who didn't censor my texts trying to sanitized them. A few weeks ago it started limiting what you can do without a premium subscription ($30), but limiting a lot. Now these ads will be the nail in the coffin. A smarter strategy to generate revenue must be imagined. I guess Gemini can survive for being a part of Google... which is based on ads.

dan brandt's avatar

How sad that the FP didn’t have the integrity to post DHS’ reply to the spun numbers of how many illegals arrested have committed a serious offense. Is it because Bari was part of it? She is giving up her integrity on this one. The FP has officially become disgusting.

Has does that go today? The FP should FO!

Charles Clemens's avatar

I found two of the articles posted today by THE FREE PRESS to be worthwhile reading. Dave Kaminsky's report on Kamela Harris being funded by secretive and un-American sources to be good reading and I hope to see more reporting on her corruption and criminality. Joe Nocera's article on Michael J. Fox touched my heart and I think I can speak for every human (i.e. those who are not being turned into Reptilian monsters with no compassion by the mRNA injections) when I applaud Mr. Fox on his unbelievable courage.

The report on Jimmy Lai is sad; but any attempt by the West to control China's behavior is futile and self-defeating. How effective has our media been in preventing slave labor and the genocide and organ stealing of the Uighers? We might as well complain about the weather.

Finally, it is clear that the FREE PRESS is simply another outlet attempting to be as good as EXPOSING THE DARKNESS. A team of their writers should follow up on the news that Jeffrey Epstein's death was reported by the Federal Attorney for Southern New York the day before he was murdered. It certainly appears that someone dropped by ball and announced his murder before it was actually carried out. A curious nation wonders why.

Sam Julier's avatar

Fishback and Welsh are momentary flashes. To be denounced for sure. But nothing to worry about long term.

paul goldberg's avatar

Did u really think Maxwell was going to give u all the relevant details.

Where there is money, sex, elite, deviants what do u expect???

paul goldberg's avatar

Mostly old news

When you publish something give us the raw data to back it up it don’t publish it

Otherwise you are like all the rest of the MSM

Looking for click bait

234's avatar

Just a little clarification please, FP......was it 40% of ALL immigrants, or ILLEGAL immigrants?

I suspect it's the latter, which makes all the arrests authorized and lawful because they're all criminals.

Who does TFP think their audience is, bunch of bozo sheep who eat anything they try to spoon feed us? Keep it up and you'll be circling the drain like every MSM account.

Adam's avatar

It's basically on par with past immigration enforcement:

12/4/2014, ACLU: The Ones Obama Left Behind - And Deported Without a Chance to Be Heard

"Each year, over 363, 279 - 83 percent - of deportations from the United States are ordered by immigration officers, NOT judges. Those deported in 'summary removal' processes do NOT get a hearing or a chance to present evidence, or call a lawyer, or even say goodbye to their families before they are banished, sometimes for life."

4/7/2014, TIME: Most Immigrants Deported Under Obama Had Thin or NO CRIMINAL RECORD

"Two-thirds of immigrants deported from the U.S. since 2008 committed minor traffic violations or had NO criminal record at all despite Obama's promise that his administration was targeting immigrants who were threats to the community."

3/21/2014 ACLU: Three Ways We Got to 2 Million (3.1 million total for 8 Obama years)

"At the same time, we have seen U.S. citizens and Green Card holders improperly detained, targeting of Latinos and immigrants by local police, and increased fear in communities, yet no indication that the Administration plans to curb Secure Communities." "In its first five years, the Obama Administration has deported about twice as many people as the Bush Administration did in the same period - all while the number of immigration judges has remained virtually stagnant and border apprehensions are at an all-time low." "The reality is that this Administration has increasingly relied on methods, such as expedited removal and reinstatements of old decisions."

1/4/2016, Politico: Obama Administration Kicks Off Family Deportation Raids

“The Obama administration confirmed Monday that it began a new wave of arrests of Central American immigrant families over the weekend, moving forward with deportations of MOTHERS and CHILDREN despite an outcry from immigrant rights groups and potential political fallout for Democrats.”

7/10/2010: New York Times: Illegal Workers Swept From Jobs in 'Silent Raids'

11/8/2011, The Atlantic Philanthropies: Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System

“Deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants are destroying families, according to a ground breaking report by the Applied Research Center (ARC). When parents are detained or deported, their children are placed in foster care. Parents face a difficult, if not impossible, battle to regain custody because of barriers by immigration enforcement and the child welfare system. ARC estimates that at least 5,100 CHILDREN live in foster care whose parents were deported or detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

MDM 2.0's avatar

I've worked in Mexico most of my life, about 12-13 years ago I hired a guy that had been deported by the Obama administration. Guy had moved to the US with his family when he was around 3 years old, attended school in the US, spoke English gooder than me - and was deported for a speeding ticket he didn't pay in a timely manner.

I'm a gringo, and my Spanish was better than his, but he was a Mexican citizen by birth, wound up being a good employee.

KARYN TRUITT's avatar

So James think someone (allegedly) tried to set his house on fire. By setting the lawn on fire. Okaaaaaaayyy... It wasn't just a hot butt flipped out the window maybe.

You would think a charlatan would appreciate the free media exposure.

Oh, and he thought that 500 people showing up at his HOME wouldn't be an issue. What, his house rents out as a venue?

KARYN TRUITT's avatar

Here's a clue, Jenny - Most Americans "have HAD it" with the looneys on the left. *AND* There Are More Of Us. (geez, I love Star Wars!!)

I'm guessing you haven't read up on the Constitution lately.... go figure. Give it a try, and give it a rest.

JN64's avatar

I can't decide if Jennifer Welch is uglier on the inside or the outside...

David Dunn's avatar

She's HAGALICIOUS!

KARYN TRUITT's avatar

And look... San Fran can't afford to pay teachers. Or build more schools.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the Rail to Nowhere??

Whatever. They can't afford to clean up the trash either. Why aren't San Frans screaming about taxes?

JK P's avatar

Schools get $$$ from prop tax mainly - perhaps too many rich folks have fled SanFran. CA is hopeless

Larrd's avatar

My guess is the problem isn't the money coming in, it's more a spending problem.

Catherine's avatar

The Free Press really feels like clickbait this morning. Scary caricatures about right-wing trolls, "Big Food" and left-wing Christian-haters headlined up top, eclipsing the serious features on Jimmy Lai and the Democrat dark-money donation. Since the ownership change, the site feels more and more like it's just hunting eyeballs, and less and less the way it used to be, focused on serious journalism, letting the chips fall where they may That said, there are still good articles here -- yesterday there were several. But it's getting harder to find them. So disappointing. I really had hope for this place and haven't quite given up yet.

Tilley's avatar

I found the 'caricature' scary, and for good reason. I didn't think the features on Jimmy Lai and Harris's were 'eclipsed' or hard to find--they are headlined, just like all the rest. I find the site easy enough to use, and I definitely prefer the FP's weekly articles to anything the mainstream media has to offer.

KARYN TRUITT's avatar

What, no discussion about the other 37.5 million that went Kammie's way, and no accounting??

Why, whatever shall we DO????

And democrats *still* think she should be president. OMG. SYCMU

Craig Macho's avatar

Hmm. A “right wing troll” in one feature story, and a “liberal torch bearer” in another.

Yet both espouse extremism and hate.

I thought we talked about this, TFP? And that we’re going to do better about overt bias?