Not every immigrant with a criminal record on ICE's non-detained docket arrived in the U.S. under President Biden's tenure. In fact, official figures indicate many of them have been here for years — if not decades.
In June 2021, just several months into the Biden administration, there were 405,786 convicted criminals in ICE's non-detained docket, according to
agency data. In August 2016, during the Obama administration, there were 368,574 convicted criminals in ICE's non-detained docket, according to
data published by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General.
"The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this Administration," DHS spokesperson Luis Miranda said in a statement to CBS News.
Many of the convicted criminals described in a recent letter from ICE have been in the U.S. for a long time, before the Biden administration took office.
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