It was reported yesterday that there are well over half a million illegal immigrants loose on the streets of America that have pending criminal charges or are convicted criminals.
The data was released by ICE to Rep. Tony Gonzales, who requested the data earlier this year. Of the 7 million for whom ICE has removal orders but are not in ICE custody, 425,431 are convicted criminals and 222,141 have pending criminal charges.
The crimes break down like this, according to Fox News:
Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and . An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions.
There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.
This morning NBC News decided to do a write-up on this but they used the data to blame Trump:
More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide — either in the United States or abroad — are living freely in the U.S., outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, according to data ICE provided to Congress earlier this week.
The immigrants