Rand Paul Turns Tables on Katie Couric for Downplaying ICE’s Arrests of Violent Criminals

‘If your daughter gets raped & he’s one of the 14%, I don’t think you’re gonna quibble about whether it’s 14 or 64’

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Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul clashed with journalist Katie Couric as she minimized the reported percentage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of violent criminals during an interview posted to her YouTube channel on Wednesday.

During the interview on her channel, Couric quoted CBS News’s Monday reporting that out of around 400,000 immigrants ICE arrested during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, less than 14% had violent criminal records, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by the outlet. Paul argued that the percentage should not be the focus, noting that if Couric’s daughter were raped by an illegal immigrant, the percentage would not matter to her.

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