In a brief statement in which he did not give detailed details, Noem boasted having increased the average monthly arrests by 627 % during the precedent Joe Biden administrationand added that this previous government only arrested 33 thousand immigrants throughout last year.
However, that last figure does not seem correct: according to data obtained by NBC television last week, There were 113,431 undocumented immigrant Last fiscal year (from October 2023 to September 2024), of which 28 % had no pending accusations.
The axios also offered another figure that contradicts Noem: according to its statistics, only last November, still during the Biden government, the different police bodies They arrested 21 thousand 130 immigrants.
In any case, Noem Does not provide details of detention places -If it was on the border or throughout the country- nor does it specify if it was the full month of January or calculated according to other dates.
Yes he wrote that Trump’s government “Save lives every day with their actions to give security to the border and Deported foreign criminals“, Of which there are currently” hundreds of thousands who entered the country illegally. ”