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ICE Is Stealing Credit for Arresting People Already in Prison

ICE is taking credit for arresting people who were already behind bars to sell its Minnesota crackdown as a success.

The Department of Homeland Security has paraded lists of people it says ICE has arrested to market its Minnesota surge as a win and push the claim that they are rounding up “worst of the worst” criminals.

But a new report suggests the department has been spinning old transfers of people from Minnesota jails into ICE custody as fresh arrests.

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