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Official immigration enforcement or border admission records and arrest/removal records corroborate that 11,888 noncitizens with murder convictions/charges were admitted during the prior administration and that many have since been arrested/removed.
ICE data show thousands of noncitizens on ICE’s national docket have homicide convictions or homicide charges, but those figures cover many years and don’t show that 11,888 people “were let into” the U.S. specifically under President Biden. ICE told Congress (July 21, 2024) there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on its national docket (435,719 convicted criminals), including more than 13,000 with homicide convictions or charges — a cumulative count going back decades, not a count of people admitted during the Biden presidency. Homeland Security and multiple fact-checkers have said the ICE numbers are being misinterpreted when cited as murders “let into” the country under one administration; ICE’s non‑detained docket includes people in removal proceedings regardless of when they entered and includes convictions from the U.S. and abroad. The White House quote thus misframes official ICE statistics and is misleading. Evidence: ICE letter to Rep. Tony Gonzales (July 21, 2024); DHS/ICE explanations and multiple fact-checks (FactCheck.org, BBC, USA Today, Reuters).