Trump's "border czar" claims more than 1.5 million noncitizens in the U.S. have criminal convictions. Here's a fact check.
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President-elect Donald Trump's appointed "border czar" Tom Homan has said that he wants to prioritize deporting noncitizens with criminal histories when Trump's second term starts in January.
This follows recent high-profile criminal cases involving undocumented immigrants, including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by a Venezuelan immigrant who crossed the U.S. southern border illegally.
But in interviews, Homan and other top Republicans have shared contradictory and inflated figures about the overall number of noncitizens who Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials say fall into this category.
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