When asked the last week of January how many of the3,500 migrants or immigrants arrested since Trump took office have criminal records, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “All of them, because they illegally broke our nation’s laws.”
“I know the last administration didn’t see it that way, so it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that’s exactly what they are.”
Prior legislators and White House administrations did make more distinctions. And so does the law, Jacob Hess reported.
There are around 11 million to 14 million people living in the country illegally, and nearly 40% of those do have some current documentation and authorization to live or work legally in the United States, according to FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group.
Of the seven different categories of people without legal status, two are “criminal” in a legal sense — with the remainder reflecting some kind of a status violation of immigration code.
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