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The use of the term 'criminal alien' by ICE and its implications for public perception of immigration enforcement.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) distinguishes detainees primarily by legal status and criminal history: it records people as having criminal convictions, pending criminal charges, or no conv...
’s public reporting and agency messaging treat “criminal” in multiple, overlapping ways: sometimes meaning people with , sometimes including people with pending criminal charges, and sometimes groupin...
’s public statistics categorize detainees by criminal history using mutually exclusive buckets—commonly “criminal convictions,” “pending criminal charges,” and “no criminal history”—and the agency rep...