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26 October
8:01 pm

Less than 3% of the people that ICE is detaining and locking up have ever committed a violent crime.

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John Hickenlooper, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)

8:01 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific percentage claim about ICE detainees' criminal backgrounds — directly relevant to immigration enforcement policy debate and verifiable against ICE detention data.
What we foundThe share of ICE detainees with violent criminal convictions is consistently found to be around 5–8%, not less than 3% as claimed.
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