Look at this chart, then read how Karoline Leavitt explains it. Makes perfect sense to me, because this is how I read it when I first saw it.

What exactly adds up to 14%? The first eight items listed on the left side of the graph (kidnapping through DWI/DUI) add up to 19.1%. Add in Assault, and the total is 30%. Again, add All Other Crimes, and the total is 60.1%. Then there’s Arson (.1%). Civil immigration violations (first offense) are still crimes, and they are 39.8% of total arrests.

So, the way I see it, the percentage of those arrested that have committed crimes other than civil immigration violations is 60.2%.

Leavitt called out a CBS article that Democrat pundits have been using to smear ICE…and dismantled it line by line.

See the text of Karoline’s remarks after the video.

Text:

LEAVITT: “I’ve seen this CBS report floating around. There’s a lot of liberal talking heads and pundits and Democrat elected politicians who think that this single story and these statistics and the way they are painted is somehow a shot at this administration.”

“It is not. And let me correct the record.”

“Number one, the Trump administration has been clear from day one that ANY illegal alien present in this country is subject to deportation.”

“However, the priority, of course, is going after the convicted criminals. The worst of the worst — the murderers, the pedophiles, the rapists in this country.”

“Interestingly, in the CBS story, what the Democrat talking heads on television are not saying is this line: nearly 60% of ICE arrestees over the past year had criminal charges or convictions.”

“And among that population, the majority of the criminal charges or convictions are for nonviolent crimes.”

“Oh, well, what are nonviolent crimes, you ask?”

“This has coincided with what DHS has been saying all along, that approximately 70% of illegal aliens arrested under President Trump have pending criminal charges and/or prior convictions, and these so-called nonviolent crimes — drug trafficking, distribution of child porn, burglary, fraud, DUI, embezzlement, solicitation of a minor, human smuggling, just to name a few.”

“So just because a crime is not violent in nature doesn’t mean that crime is victimless.”

“And I can guarantee every single person who is out there on television right now pointing to these statistics that were taken out of context by CBS News would not want an illegal alien convicted of the distribution of child porn or fraud or DUI living in your community.”

“So the Trump administration will continue our focus on deporting all illegal aliens present in our country, with a focus on the worst of the worst criminals.”