The network’s evening news barely mentions the new ICE report on 425,000 criminal migrants in the United States

“NBC Nightly News” was the network’s only primetime newscast Friday night to report groundbreaking new data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showing that more than 400,000 illegal immigrants convicted of crimes are currently in custody United States are free.

Both ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” made no mention of the findings that ICE provided this week in a letter to Congress that was reported by several other media outlets on Friday. They simply reported on Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Arizona’s border with Mexico and praised her policy proposals on immigration.

Only NBC News’ evening news program mentioned the letter, although it did not cover the full scope of the findings – it simply reported that “more than 13,000 migrants previously convicted of murder are currently free in the United States.”

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Fox News Digital reported Friday that ICE sent a letter this week to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and other members of Congress showing that there are 425,431 convicted criminal migrants — and 222,141 with pending criminal charges — as of July 2024. who have crossed the U.S. southern border illegally and are awaiting deportation from the country.

According to the report, none of these criminal migrants will be detained, including those who have received their final deportation order or are undergoing deportation proceedings.

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Of these 425,431 convicted criminals, 62,231 were convicted of assault, 14,301 were convicted of burglary, 56,533 were convicted of drug abuse, and 13,099 were convicted of murder. Another 2,521 were convicted of kidnapping and 15,811 were convicted of sexual assault.

“NBC Nightly News” briefly noted the existence of the letter and the more than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder in the country, but noted that nearly half a million other criminal immigrants are not currently incarcerated in the United States

The other two networks made no mention of the shocking results at all on their prime-time nightly newscasts on Friday.

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“CBS Evening News” made no mention of the letter, instead focusing on the dueling immigration rhetoric of the Harris and Trump presidential campaigns.

The network noted that Harris “has touted himself as tough on cross-border crime” and reported that “foot traffic across the entire U.S.-Mexico border has declined in recent months,” thanks in part to Mexico’s crackdown on immigration as well as the Biden-Harris administration guidelines.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” took the same approach to reporting on the border issue, mentioning Harris’ trip to Arizona this week and how she sought to portray his vision of border security against that of former President Trump.

The network reported that asylum restrictions enacted by the Biden-Harris administration in June had led to a “drastic decline in encounters across the border.” It also mentioned Harris’ border policy mantra that “we can be a nation of laws and also a nation of immigrants.”

Trump criticized Harris’ border policies following the release of the ICE data, telling supporters at a campaign rally in Michigan on Friday: “We’re like a landfill. Non-citizens, convicted criminals from around the world are currently at large in the United States of America.”

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