(NewsNation) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will discuss recent federal immigration operations Monday at a news conference in Florida.
Noem is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m. EDT. NewsNation will stream the event from this story.
The Trump administration has continually increased immigration enforcement and the deployment of federal forces in cities like Chicago, Portland and potentially San Francisco.
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The White House said it has arrested more than 480,000 people in the U.S. illegally during Trump’s second administration.
High-ranking Trump officials, including Noem, have repeatedly touted these arrests as being the “worst of the worst” offenders — though data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University found a majority of those currently in immigration detention have no criminal records.
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During a NewsNation town hall, White House border czar Tom Homan said nearly 70% of those arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are threats to public safety or national security, while the remaining 30% are collateral arrests.
“Our job is the removal of these gang members,” Homan said.
TRAC data found the reverse: 42,755 of 59,762 people in ICE detention, or 71.5%, had no criminal conviction as of late September.
NewsNation’s Ali Bradley and Damita Menezes contributed to this report.
