DHS Credits 18% Homicide Drop to Deportations of Violent Illegal Immigrants

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 31

U.S. homicides in a sample of large cities are down 18% from a year earlier, and DHS said that decline reflects the removal of violent criminal illegal immigrants.
Council on Criminal Justice data cited by the White House also showed carjackings fell 47%, motor vehicle thefts 20%, robberies 17% and residential burglaries 13%, with homicides on pace for the lowest level since 1900.
DHS highlighted recent deportations of convicted offenders and gang members, including a Tren de Aragua member deported July 18, a Paisas gang member with homicide and illegal re-entry convictions deported July 27, and a Surenos member deported the same day.
The department also pointed to removals on July 16-28 of deportees from Laos, Cuba and Haiti with records including armed carjacking, vehicle theft, fraud, cocaine possession and weapons offenses.
The White House cast the figures as evidence of Trump's law-and-order agenda, while DHS argued the crime drop coincides with deportations of what it called the 'worst of the worst.'