“Of course, these stats are B.S.,” Greg Gutfeld explained on his Fox News Channel show Wednesday, dissecting CBS’s claim that only 60% of illegal aliens arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have no criminal past and that just 14% of all those arrested have been charged with, or convicted of, “violent” crimes.
“First, let's tackle the 14% number,” the “Gutfeld!” host began:
“It sounds small, but 14% is a lot if you're dealing with a massive number to begin with.”
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“Fact is, out of 400,000 illegals (arrested in Trump’s first year), 14% comes to 56,000 rapists and killers, you name it. So what would you want law enforcement to do about them?”
“But the entire premise is disgusting,” Gutfeld continued:
“CBS admits that 60% arrested had criminal charges or convictions. But, don't worry (they say), the majority were nonviolent - which is supposed to make you think of harmless offenses like parking tickets, and jaywalking.”
But, CBS counts serious offenses – such as drug trafficking, child porn, fraud, DUI, and human smuggling – as nonviolent crimes, Gutfeld noted.
“So what the [bleep] CBS? What are you trying to do here?” Gutfeld asked.
“It's like you want more people to die. But it gets worse,” he continued, taking on CBS’s “40% have no criminal record” statistic:
“CBS's bombshell report also claims that 40% of ICE arrestees had no criminal past - they seem to mean here in the U.S.
“ICE arrested this guy (showing photo) last week: he’s an MS-13 member who shot, tortured and murdered five people - but forget it, people, in El Salvador.
“So, I guess he's nonviolent, since he wasn't convicted here.”
Gutfeld also pointed out that the illegal aliens who killed Laken Riley and other high-profile victims didn’t have criminal histories in the U.S. at the time they committed their murders.
“If you commit a crime outside the U.S., it doesn't count. I guess we owe Nicolas Maduro an apology,” Gutfeld snarked.
The media’s hypocrisy and dishonesty in their treatment of crime exposes how their reporting is driven by their radical leftist agenda, not a commitment to reporting the truth, Gutfeld said:
“Of course, this is coming from the same media that lectures one death is too many, which is used to justify insane regulations and public health policies. Remember the pandemic?
“A single death is a tragedy, they would claim - well, unless it's a girl jogging on her lunch break.”
“But in the end, this report is another effort to stop us from keeping bad people out of our country. And they do this by pretending that we're targeting peaceful illegals,” Gutfeld concluded.
