Fox News’ reporter Bill Melugin calls the figures “jaw dropping” and that could be an understatement. According to information sent in a letter by the head of ICE there are nearly half a million migrants currently roaming the US who have been convicted of crimes, many of them violent crimes up to and including murder.
The agency provided data to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, about national data for illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions. The data, as of July 2024, is broken down by those in detention, and those who are not in detention — known as the non-detained docket. The non-detained docket includes illegal immigrants who have final orders of removal or are going through removal proceedings but are not detained in ICE custody. There are currently more than 7 million people on that docket.
The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431…
