An internal DHS memo obtained by CBS News shows that fewer than 14 percent of nearly 400,000 non-citizens detained and interned in their gulags over the past year have either been charged with or convicted of violent offenses on their criminal records in the US, and just 60 percent of overall offenders have committed any crime besides the civil immigration violation leading to their arrest.
Notice “charged” is there, as in either (A) They’re awaiting trial and ICE is trying to deport them before they can face a jury or (B) They were never actually convicted because they were acquitted, a judge tossed the case, a witness lied, case was diverted, DA dropped the charges, and so on. It could’ve been last week or in friggin 1983. A grandfather from Mexico could’ve done six months for beating the shit out of some guy in a bar that same year and now he’s a “violent offender” who co-owns a 30 acre plant nursery and serves as a Eucharistic minister at his Roman Catholic parish.
Oh and just 0.3 percent of the 392,619 are Tren de Aragua members or affiliates, 1.6 percent connected to any transnational gang. That’s “alleged” too, the scope of such allegations last year encompassed a Venezuelan man who taught autistic kids to swim – and whose tattoo of a ribbon with puzzle pieces in it honoring his younger brother counted as a “gang tag” and condemned him to an El Salvadoran dungeon where he was beaten and tortured for months before being repatriated.