Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy put the Biden-Harris administration’s chief flak on the defensive once again Monday with a pointed question about the “danger” posed to American citizens by illegal aliens who have been convicted of “murder.”
As of July 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that there are a total of 13,099 undocumented immigrants convicted of homicide currently living in the U.S., according to a letter sent to Republican Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales on Wednesday. Jean-Pierre contended that the data provided by ICE is a “false representation” of reality, the Daily Caller reported.
“Thirteen-thousand people who’ve been convicted of murder crossed the border illegally and are living among us,” Doocy began in his exchange with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. “So how much danger are U.S. communities in right now because of this?”
“I think it’s important to correct the record here. First of all, the false representation of the data ICE shared is what we’re seeing: false representation. I got to call that out,” Jean-Pierre said. “We got to call that out, and this has been fact-checked by some of your colleagues here, by multiple, multiple, multiple outlets. That has been debunked on what has been falsely misrepresented here, so we have to call that out.”
The press secretary explained that the figure of undocumented immigrants convicted of these crimes currently living in the open is misleading. She argued that agencies must ensure they are not “lying” to the American public.
