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Do 70% of immigrant detainees have criminal convictions or charges? Fact-checking Kristi Noem
By Maria Ramirez Uribe
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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research group that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to analyze government data, charts detention data snapshots taken twice a month. The percentage of immigrants with criminal convictions or pending charges during Trump’s first year in office ranged from 41% to 57%.
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