What is ICE's job?
· 38 min
Episode What is ICE's job?
We examine what the current presidential administration tells us about Immigration and Customs Enforcement and what the numbers, courts and history of the agency have to say.
For more information on the data referenced in this episode, you can check out this Politico fact check of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's statements about ICE, this CATO Institute analysis, this CBS report, and this TRAC report and this Deportation Data Project release.
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Links in the notes 6
- https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/jan/23/Kristi-NoemICE-detention-criminal-conviction-70/
- https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convictions-73-no-convictions
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ices-detainee-population-record-high-of-73000/
- https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/
- https://deportationdata.org/data/processed/ice.html
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