Leavitt Responds to CBS Report on Illegals: ‘These So-Called “Non-Violent” Crimes Are Drug Trafficking, Distribution of Child Porn, Burglary... DUI, Embezzlement’

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LEAVITT: “I've seen this CBS report floating around. There's a lot of liberal talking heads and pundits and Democrat-elected politicians who think that this single story and these statistics and the way they are painted is somehow a shot at this administration. It is not. And let me correct the record. Number one, the Trump administration has been clear from day one that any illegal alien present in this country is subject to deportation. However, the priority, of course, is going after the convicted criminals, the worst of the worst, the murderers, the pedophiles, the rapists in this country. Interestingly, in the CBS story, what the Democrat talking heads on television are not saying is this line. Nearly 60 percent of ICE arrestees over the past year had criminal charges or convictions. And among that population, the majority of the criminal charges or convictions are for non-violent crimes. Oh, well, what are non-violent crimes, you ask? This has coincided with what DHS has been saying all along, that approximately 70 percent of illegal aliens arrested under President Trump have pending criminal charges and or prior convictions. And these so-called non-violent crimes, drug trafficking, distribution of child porn, burglar, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor and human smuggling, just to name a few. So just because a crime is not violent in nature doesn't mean that crime is victimless.”