{"id":2977,"date":"2026-02-16T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:25:27","slug":"cbs-news-downplays-10s-of-thousands-of-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"CBS News Downplays 10&#8217;s of Thousands of Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-records-trump-first-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently ran an \u201cexclusive\u201d with the headline<\/a>: <em>\u201cLess than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump\u2019s 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows.\u201d<\/em> At first glance, the framing suggests ICE is overstating the threat. But once you read past the headline, the article itself acknowledges that this statistic comes from a pool of roughly <strong>400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE<\/strong> during President Trump\u2019s first year of his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s where the headline becomes misleading. Saying \u201conly 14%\u201d minimizes the reality of what those numbers represent. Victims of violent crime don\u2019t care whether the offender is part of a small or large percentage\u2014they care that the crime happened at all. And the data is not trivial:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>346 arsonists<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1,116 kidnappers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2,107 murderers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2,725 robbers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5,053 burglars<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5,365 sexual assailants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6,146 weapons offenders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>22,555 with dangerous drug offenses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>29,929 DUI\/DWI offenders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>42,847 who committed assault<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>117,987 All other crimes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These aren\u2019t minor infractions. Many of these crimes have high recidivism rates, meaning the individuals involved often have multiple victims over time. When you add it up, more than <strong>275,000 people or families<\/strong> were harmed by individuals in this group. And since these offenses account for roughly <strong>70%<\/strong> of those arrested and deported, it\u2019s clear that the majority were not simply people who crossed the border illegally\u2014they were people who broke additional laws, often serious ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also reasonable to assume that many of the remaining ~118,000 were detained alongside criminal offenders\u2014spouses, children, or other household members who were also in the country illegally. ICE is not roaming the streets looking for law\u2011abiding undocumented immigrants; they are primarily targeting individuals who have already been arrested or flagged for criminal activity. If sanctuary cities consistently transferred custody of criminal offenders to ICE instead of releasing them, tragedies like the deaths of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and even protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti might have been prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data also indicates that approximately <strong>1,100 deportees were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua<\/strong>, and another <strong>6,200 belonged to other gangs<\/strong>, including MS\u201113. These are not harmless individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when CBS frames the situation as if ICE is making a fuss over \u201conly\u201d 14%, it ignores the real\u2011world impact on the victims of these crimes. The headline softens a reality that is anything but soft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As comedian Nikki Glaser joked, if you want to \u201cSee B.S. News,\u201d you know where to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News recently ran an \u201cexclusive\u201d with the headline: \u201cLess than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump\u2019s 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows.\u201d At first glance, the framing suggests ICE is overstating the threat. But once you read past the headline, the article itself acknowledges that this statistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35,38,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-msm-bias","category-news-and-media","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-politics-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}