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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Hawkinson

Trump vowed to prioritize deporting hardened criminals. Data suggests only 6% of known undocumented immigrant murderers have been caught

A year ago, the acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement head delivered data to Congress stating the agency knew of 13,000 undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who were convicted of murder but had yet to be arrested.

Since then, President Donald Trump’s administration has vowed to arrest “the worst of the worst” and carry out the “largest deportation program in American history.” But new data shows that ICE has arrested just 752 people convicted of homicide and 1,693 people convicted of sexual assault from October 1 to May 31, according to NBC News.

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