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    Misleading Border Crime Statistic

    by Lori Robertson Jan 08, 2019 2 minutes

    U.S. Border Patrol encountered 6,259 immigrants with criminal convictions, many of them for illegal entry charges, in fiscal 2018, according to the most recent statistics. Yet, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney misleadingly claimed authorities “had arrested 17,000 criminals at the southern border.”

    President Donald Trump, too, included this figure in on Jan. 4, saying “17,000 adults at the border with existing criminal records were arrested”.

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