'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
This is bad enough, but we also know they're not touching actual criminals (they fight back). So they're very explicitly going after the lowest-hanging fruit possible.
That’s gotta be lower than the national average.
It's even worse if they're using "criminal record" the same way the FBI has historically (arrested but not necessarily convicted on a felony charge).
I don't have up to date numbers, but c.2016 the FBI considered ~29% of Americans to have a criminal record.
The detained are the most non combative people. An old white person would throw a fit and slap box the shit out of ice officers.
I want to know what fraction of a percent, if any, had felonies. Most of the time when they toughted someone was a criminal it ended up being a traffic ticket.
There have been legitimate reports of immigrants being caught up in this ICE fiasco because a cheque bounced decades ago.
yeah its like they constantly lie through their teeth and even the rare time they are technically not lying it is such a stretch and so disingenuous that it is still massively dishonest. Its like they are at best a stopped clock with truth.
Did people think they were rounding up criminals?
I want to believe this but there is absolutely no evidence, provided by this article, to back this up.
Why wouldn't you link the filing you are supposedly quoting?
*Edit:
On my phone. There is a link to a a Chicago Tribune article in the section past where they initially referenced the data.
I had clicked a couple of links where OP's article referenced the DoJ data and they were just references to other articles in its own publication.
I guess I gave up too early.
On that note though, how about OP just post the original article instead of this derivative trash article?
It has been so easy for people to generate bullshit news articles for manufactured news aggregates that reference circulary, for the purpose of obscuring the truth,.or creating wedge issues.
So now, if I don't recognize the publisher, and it is setup like this one, I immediately smell bullshit.
It's in like the first fucking paragraph: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/only-2-5-on-list-of-614-operation-midway-blitz-arrestees-had-criminal-histories-doj-records-show/
Do you think the Chicago Tribune made this up whole cloth? You don't think they'd use a slightly less absurd figure if they had?
