Trump campaigned on a vow to round up the “worst of the worst” offenders among the criminals who were living illegally inside the United States. But CBS News has obtained deportation data that indicates the Trump administration’s deportation push has ensnared many undocumented immigrants without violent criminal records.
Of the estimated 100,000 people who were deported between January 1 and June 24 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 70,583 were convicted criminals, according to an ICE document obtained by CBS News. However, the data also shows that most of the documented infractions were traffic or immigration offenses.
most of the documented infractions were traffic or immigration offenses.
“Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?” --Mitch Hedberg
It makes perfect sense for deportees to be deported for immigration offenses–that’s basically THE reason to deport someone in a country. Don’t see anything controversial about that.
But it looks like “traffic” is thrown in (indeed, mentioned first) to make it sound more sensational–after all, that sentence is still technically accurate if it was 99% immigration offenses and 1% traffic offenses.
I’ve got the feeling that if you considered traffic only, “most” would no longer be accurate, so I looked over the article. Lo and behold (or don’t), no figure at all for traffic at all. Not even a mention of it after that line.
I hate these underhanded rhetorical ‘maneuvers’–unfortunately, when the spin leads to a statement that makes the ‘right team’ look good, too many people happily swallow the result, no matter how disingenuous it might be.
It shouldn’t be only the ‘other team’ that pushes back against bullshit like this.