>The list is topped by 16 people deemed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a “high public safety risk” because of their alleged criminal histories. Charges include aggravated assault, aggravated DUI, domestic battery and kidnapping. One person was deemed a national security risk, and another was identified as a “foreign criminal,” but no details were given.
>The government was required to provide the list in court as a judge prepares to potentially release most of those people by next Friday, because their arrests potentially violated the terms of a court order restricting warrantless arrests.
>The government’s own data shows that 78% of the 607 people detained by federal immigration agents between June 12 and mid-October pose a low risk to public safety, while a total of 7% are considered high risk – though not all of those considered high risk have criminal histories.
>Only 16 people on the list – or 2.6% – have criminal histories that the federal government deemed make them high risks to public safety.
>”That’s not a good percentage, to say the least. I think it runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated over the last several months, where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst,” Balliet said.
iiitme on
They’re just snatching anyone who has a little too much melanin
sabedo on
It’s a racial cleansing, that’s all this is
Drugsarefordrugs on
Accurate arrests were never the objective.
Loud-Ad-2280 on
How many are American citizens?
ti36xamateur on
Wait did they have criminal histories before they were arrested or was it trumped up charges?
b_luddy on
Aside from them being here illegally?
Diced_and_Confused on
It’s Minority Report.
fxkatt on
16 of 600… kinda like the ratio of charged Venezuelans sent to that torture chamber Cecot Prison.
PercentageDry3231 on
The new ICE motto “It is better for ten innocent men to be arrested than for one guilty man to go free.”
jcouball on
The real surprise is that they could only find 600 people to arrest.
shinra_soldiers on
oh, i guess entering the country illegally isn’t illegal anymore?
scfoothills on
That’s a much lower percentage of people with criminal records than the general population.
invalidpassword on
I think the bar has been lowered to you only have to have brown skin.
birthday_soup on
Pretty shitty batting average
Wild_Read9062 on
It was never about law, order, or criminals- it was always about hurting any area that didn’t vote red in overwhelming numbers. Always.
Topheriffic on
2.6% I think?
Great use of money and bravado there. /s
DaydreamsForFun on
That’s 3%. These people suck at their job o yeah, it’s just not liking people of color. Either way, fuck ice.
burrito_foreskin on
YOU dont UNDERSTAND. They came here ILLEGALLY making it civil CRIME. I DONT understand what that MEANS but I know it PROVES my point!
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Snippets from [the article](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-ice-arrests-600-criminal-histories-high-public-safety-risk/):
>The list is topped by 16 people deemed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a “high public safety risk” because of their alleged criminal histories. Charges include aggravated assault, aggravated DUI, domestic battery and kidnapping. One person was deemed a national security risk, and another was identified as a “foreign criminal,” but no details were given.
>The government was required to provide the list in court as a judge prepares to potentially release most of those people by next Friday, because their arrests potentially violated the terms of a court order restricting warrantless arrests.
>The government’s own data shows that 78% of the 607 people detained by federal immigration agents between June 12 and mid-October pose a low risk to public safety, while a total of 7% are considered high risk – though not all of those considered high risk have criminal histories.
>Only 16 people on the list – or 2.6% – have criminal histories that the federal government deemed make them high risks to public safety.
>”That’s not a good percentage, to say the least. I think it runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated over the last several months, where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst,” Balliet said.
They’re just snatching anyone who has a little too much melanin
It’s a racial cleansing, that’s all this is
Accurate arrests were never the objective.
How many are American citizens?
Wait did they have criminal histories before they were arrested or was it trumped up charges?
Aside from them being here illegally?
It’s Minority Report.
16 of 600… kinda like the ratio of charged Venezuelans sent to that torture chamber Cecot Prison.
The new ICE motto “It is better for ten innocent men to be arrested than for one guilty man to go free.”
The real surprise is that they could only find 600 people to arrest.
oh, i guess entering the country illegally isn’t illegal anymore?
That’s a much lower percentage of people with criminal records than the general population.
I think the bar has been lowered to you only have to have brown skin.
Pretty shitty batting average
It was never about law, order, or criminals- it was always about hurting any area that didn’t vote red in overwhelming numbers. Always.
2.6% I think?
Great use of money and bravado there. /s
That’s 3%. These people suck at their job o yeah, it’s just not liking people of color. Either way, fuck ice.
YOU dont UNDERSTAND. They came here ILLEGALLY making it civil CRIME. I DONT understand what that MEANS but I know it PROVES my point!
/s
But being an immigrant IS the crime, remember!