The Trump administration has released the names of 607 people detained by immigration agents, and whose arrests might have violated a court order, and only 16 – or 2.6% – of them have been identified by the federal government as a “high public safety risk” because of their alleged criminal histories, according to court documents.
Eric Balliet, a retired special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, worked for the department until last year after 25 years on the job, said the data regarding the ICE arrests erodes trust in the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, in particular the Trump administration’s repeated claims that they are targeting the “worst of the worst.”
I think there might have been a misconception here. When they say they are targeting the worst of the worst, they don’t mean the people they want to deport, but the people they are trying to hire into ICE.