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13 October
5:11 pm

Sixteen thousand detainers are out there for people who committed fifty two thousand crimes in our state

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:11 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figures about ICE detainers and crimes committed by undocumented immigrants in New York — these numbers are verifiable and central to the immigration policy debate
What we foundThe figures of ~16,000 detainers and ~52,000 criminal counts are confirmed by DHS primary data and the New York Post, but Blakeman's characterization of '52,000 crimes' overstates the DHS figure, which counts both charges and convictions—not confirmed crimes.
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