{"id":2442306,"date":"2025-06-03T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/press-believes-that-only-violent-illegals-should-be-deported\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:07:47","slug":"press-believes-that-only-violent-illegals-should-be-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/press-believes-that-only-violent-illegals-should-be-deported\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Believes That Only Violent Illegals Should Be Deported"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpress-believes-that-only-violent-illegals-should-be-deported%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2442306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article from The New Republic, authored by Edith Olmsted, critiques a recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation where 1,461 illegal individuals were arrested, highlighting that only 54% of these had criminal convictions. Activists argue that the low percentage of individuals with serious criminal records indicates a failure of evidence-based enforcement. The piece discusses a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >recurring media narrative suggesting<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-candidate-ingrid-centurion-slams-nancy-mace-for-turning-her-back-on-trump\/\" title=\"Exclusive: Candidate Ingrid Centurion Slams Nancy Mace for Turning \u2018Her Back on Trump\u2019\">immigration law enforcement<\/a> should only target violent felons, which some view as problematic for the enforcement of immigration laws overall. It stresses that entering the country illegally is a crime in itself, and debates the appropriateness of law enforcement&#8217;s focus. Contrary to the portrayal of ICE operations as overly harsh, polls indicate a important portion of the American public supports deportations of illegal immigrants. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of maintaining law and order within the country amidst debates over immigration policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/maz\/post\/195984\/ice-arrested-1400-people-how-many-criminal-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> published Monday in The New Republic by Edith Olmsted said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement&rsquo;s (ICE) &ldquo;biggest operation to date was also a huge failure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;failure&rdquo; in question? That during a month-long operation in Massachusetts, ICE arrested 1,461 illegal aliens &mdash; of whom 54 percent had &ldquo;criminal convictions or charges.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Meanwhile, 277 detainees, or about 19 percent, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-previously-convicted-of-child-rape\/\" title=\"... Arrests Illegal Immigrant Previously Convicted of Child Rape\">received final orders<\/a> of removal or deportation,&rdquo; Olmsted wrote. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the same narrative peddled by activist Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReichlinMelnick\/status\/1929551132373741947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a post<\/a> on X: &ldquo;Wow. Just 54% of all the people arrested during this operation had a criminal record at all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the spin is a familiar sleight of hand: by focusing on whether an illegal alien has committed <em>additional <\/em>crimes beyond illegal entry, the implication is that immigration law is only worth enforcing if the individual has committed a violent crime. <\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t a new tactic, either. In February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/02\/04\/nx-s1-5282379\/trumps-mass-deportation-arrests-of-non-criminal-immigrants-no-criminal-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR&rsquo;s<\/a> Sergio Mart&iacute;nez-Beltr&aacute;n ran a story lamenting that &ldquo;ICE has arrested scores of migrants in the U.S. who have no criminal records.&rdquo; He highlighted the case of an 18-year-old who entered through Biden&rsquo;s CBP One app &mdash; a loophole that allowed thousands of migrants to enter temporarily while awaiting an immigration hearing despite no vetting. The app had become a de-facto catch-and-release mechanism. <\/p>\n<p>In January, NBC News&rsquo; Gabe Gutierrez and Nicole Acevedo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/ice-trump-deportations-numbers-rcna188937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> &ldquo;Immigration authorities made close to 1,200 arrests in just one day, and nearly half of those detained don&rsquo;t have criminal records &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez and Acevedo contend that <em>only<\/em> 52 percent of them &ldquo;were considered &lsquo;criminal arrests.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The rest appear to be nonviolent offenders or people who have not committed any criminal offense other than crossing the border illegally,&rdquo; the duo write without a hint of irony. <\/p>\n<p>But anyone who came here <em>illegally<\/em> is by definition a criminal. Every one of these individuals broke the law the moment they entered the United States unlawfully. That some of them also committed violent or serious cries doesn&rsquo;t negate the criminality of the rest &mdash; it just underscores the danger of allowing any alien remain. <\/p>\n<p>But the media&rsquo;s narrative is telling: Immigration law enforcement is only justified if an illegal alien is also a violent felon. Anything less is treated as though it is cruel or excessive.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez and Acevedo hint as much, writing &ldquo;Administration officials and President Donald Trump have stated repeatedly that they would prioritize the detention and deportations of undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes, but the latest numbers may be casting doubts around such promises.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Olmsted invoked the arrest of an 18-year-old &ldquo;student&rdquo; who was arrested &ldquo;just days before graduation&rdquo; for being in the country illegally. <\/p>\n<p>This type of reframing is designed to make immigration law unenforceable in practice &mdash; because under this logic, anyone who is sympathetic becomes untouchable. But that is not how a sovereign nation functions. Laws are not suspended simply because someone has a compelling backstory and no country can survive if it allows its borders to be treated as suggestions rather than limits. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, most Americans understand this. A January Ipsos\/Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/majority-americans-support-deporting-immigrants-who-are-us-illegally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> found 66 percent of Americans support deporting illegal aliens, while CNN&rsquo;s Harry Enten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/cnns-harry-enten-finds-most-voters-want-all-illegal-immigrants-deported-americans-like-where-were-going-under-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in April that 56 percent of those asked in a CNN poll supported mass deportations for all illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump,&rdquo; Enten said. <\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve become that way for a reason &mdash; you cannot have a country when it&rsquo;s overrun by foreigners. The American people aren&rsquo;t deciding who gets to stay &mdash; they are deciding whether this country remains a nation governed by laws, or whether we surrender to an emotional blackmail campaign run by open-borders ideologues in the propaganda press. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in The New Republic by Edith Olmsted claims ICE&#8217;s largest operation was a significant failure, noting that 54% of the 1,461 arrested illegal aliens had criminal records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2442307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ICE-enforcement-in-Boston-scaled-e1748967386516.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6184,3813,4604,3699],"class_list":["post-2442306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-deportation","tag-immigration","tag-press","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ICE-enforcement-in-Boston-scaled-e1748967386516.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442310,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442306\/revisions\/2442310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}