"Immigration and Customs and Enforcement officials have claimed since June that assaults on their own officers have climbed sharply, with the White House insisting in a September executive order that attacks are up "more than 1,000 percent." While the number of assaults on ICE agents have increased, there is no public evidence that they have spiked as dramatically as the federal government has claimed."
"Undisputably, ICE agents have at times faced increasingly dangerous work conditions and assaults around the nation, including some that could have turned deadly. The agency promises that every person who assaults an ICE agent "will face the full extent of the law," according to an executive order signed by President Trump. But Colorado Public Radio's search of federal court records for charges of assault on a federal officer over the last five years found no evidence"
"Despite repeated requests for data to back up their eye-popping statistics, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly declined to provide any justification to CPR or NPR for continuing to make its claims. Going back five years, CPR News found that while the number of assaults on federal officers has risen, it has grown at nowhere near the rate claimed by the federal government. ICE is under pressure to find and remove millions of people from the country who are here without legal status."
ICE and the White House have asserted that assaults on ICE officers rose "more than 1,000 percent." Court-record analysis shows about a 25 percent rise in charges for assault against federal officers through mid-September compared to the prior year. ICE agents have faced increasingly dangerous conditions and some potentially deadly assaults. The Department of Homeland Security declined to provide data supporting the larger claims. A five-year review found assaults have risen but not near the claimed rate. Increased operations and protests coincide with a rise in charges, and charging delays mean totals through mid-September may be incomplete.
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