On Monday, a bombshell report by ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner, shared originally by U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, quickly went viral among Republicans. The study said that as of July 21 there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on the agency's non-detained docket (NDD), out of which more than 435,000 are convicted criminals and 226,847 of them have pending criminal charges.
The report was quickly picked up by former president Donald Trump, who blamed the Biden administration letting convicted felons "free to roam and kill in our country." The Department of Homeland Security, however, came out to clarify that the data had been "misinterpreted" as it includes people who entered the country over the past 40 year or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this administration.
