‘ICE Barbie’ Kristi Noem claims 1.6M migrants have left the country. Even the group behind the number admits it may be overstated
‘Ice Barbie’ Kristi Noem He claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have left the country since the president Donald Trump He was taken into office, but the group behind the number can be exaggerated.
Known for wearing migration and customs executive equipment for promotional stunts, the internal security secretary shared on Thursday in FOX News, “We have 1.6 million illegal immigrants who voluntarily leave this country.”
“I think these numbers show exactly Donald J. Trump’s genius,” he said. “Kristi, ‘Kristi, if you are to be my internal security secretary, we will obey the law, you will make advertisements, you will tell the world that we will not tolerate people illegally in our country and that they should go home.”
Homeland security published X on Thursday, “unprecedented” data sharing what he said, “in the last 200 days, 1.6 million illegal country outside our country.”
‘Ice Barbie’ Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have been separated from the country since the beginning of the task, but the group behind the number can be exaggerated (US migration and customs clearance practices through Getty Images)
The data came from a version published by the Migration Research Center, a non -profit research organization defining itself as “low immigration, pro -immigrant”.
The non -profit organization found that the government’s data from the current population survey and the estimated number of the illegal immigrant population in the United States was 15.8 million and decreased to 14.2 million until July.
However, there were some warnings of non -profit organizations, including migrants’ lar the latest implementation efforts ”, including the fact that they might be more reluctant to respond to the government survey.
“If this is the case, our illegal immigration forecast on the survey may be exaggerating the decline in real numbers,” he said.
The Group also stated that July data is a preliminary because there are some administrative data necessary to estimate that illegal immigrants are not yet available.
Independent He reached DHS for a comment.
DHS says 1.6 million figures refers to those who left the United States on their own.
The agency asked illegal immigrants to settle on their own to avoid arrest and potentially return to the country. He even offered to pay for the travel costs of illegal immigrants and to give them extra $ 1,000 if they settled on their own.
A demonstrator raises an American-Mexican flag in front of the sailors while protecting the protector during a protest against Ice raids in Los Angeles (Apu Gomes/Getty Images) on July 4th.
However, DHS further broke illegal migration through the country -wide ice raids.
According to DHS’s press release on Thursday, more than 352,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested and removed more than 324,000 from the United States.
However, the data shows that the speed of daily immigration arrests in July decreased by about 20 percent.
Between 1-27 July, the US immigration and customs protection, according to government data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a non-partisan research project based on Syracuse University, made an average of 990 days of arrest from 1,224 in the previous month.
