An integral part of Donald Trump's mass deportation proposal has been the claim that, during the Biden administration, thousands of migrants with criminal records were released and, in his words, "are now happily living in the United States."
The idea gained more traction back in September when U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, published a letter from ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner which revealed 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.
