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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has disputed a CBS article claiming that most illegal immigrants arrested under the Trump administration did not commit “violent crimes.”
CBS’s Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported Monday that an internal DHS document showed less than 14% of the nearly 400,000 immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been charged or convicted of violent crimes despite President Donald Trump’s vow to go after “the worst.”
DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin insisted to X that this was a misreading of the numbers, pointing out that the article underestimates many serious crimes by classifying them as “non-violent.”
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin pushed back on the CBS report on Monday. (Fox Stories)
“Drug trafficking, distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, fraud, solicitation of a minor, human trafficking are all classified as ‘non-violent crimes.’ As we said, ~70% of those illegal immigrants arrested under @POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem have criminal convictions or prior convictions,” McLaughlin wrote.
In another post, he wrote, “According to @cbs, Edward Hernandez, the @ICEgov arrested last week in Virginia is ‘not a criminal’ because he has never been convicted of a crime in the United States. Never forget that he is a member of MS-13 and confessed to killing 5 people in El Salvador by shooting, torturing, stabbing one victim (including dismemberment)”
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The official ICE X account also responded to the CBS report in a post criticizing the classification of “non-violent” criminals.
The CBS article acknowledged nearly 60% of illegal immigrants arrested by ICE had criminal convictions or convictions. (AP Photo)
“Here’s a more accurate headline, CBS. About 70% of the felony criminals arrested by ICE have pending charges or prior convictions. So-called ‘non-violent’ crimes include people charged with drug trafficking, distribution of child pornography, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation, robbery and more. Such ‘non-violent’ crimes do not mean they are non-threatening. to public safety,” the document reads.
The official Homeland Security X account also listed examples of illegal immigrants detained by ICE who would qualify as “non-violent” under the CBS report because they were charged and convicted of violent crimes outside the United States.
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Despite the headline that “fewer than 14%” of detained immigrants “have violent criminal records,” the article itself acknowledged that “nearly 60% of ICE detainees last year had felony convictions or convictions” including DUI, kidnapping and arson. Another 40%, according to the document, “were charged with immigration.”
Homeland Security shared examples of detained immigrants who would not qualify as ‘violent’ criminals under the CBS report. (DHS/Jim Watson – Pool/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to DHS and CBS for comment.
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The numbers in the CBS document represent 393,000 arrests between Jan. 21, 2025 and Jan. 31 of this year.
