CBS Runs With Usual Narrative On Trump Admin Deportations, But DHS Isn’t Having It: ‘Wrong!’

CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan claimed on Sunday that nearly half of the illegal immigrants being deported by President Donald Trump’s administration had neither been charged nor convicted of any crimes — but the Department of Homeland Security took a different view of things.

Brennan laid out the situation on “Face the Nation,” where she explained, “The number of detainees held by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has reached a record high of nearly 66,000, according to data released Friday by DHS.”

“Earlier this month, our Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported that roughly half of those in custody have no criminal charges or convictions on their record,” she added, claiming that they were “being held solely because of alleged civil violations of immigration law … 48% of current detainees lack criminal charges or convictions.”

She went on to claim that the number of “non-criminal detainees” held by immigration officers had gone up more than 2,000% since Trump took office. She went on to share the most recent polling data stating that President Trump was slightly underwater on his handling of immigration — 45% approved, and 55% disapproved.

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The DHS struck back in an X post, however, and contested the data Brennan had put forth.

“WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions. Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?” the DHS post read. “But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH.”

WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions.

Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?

But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH. https://t.co/JFQ044rfZe

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 24, 2025

A number of others pushed back as well, criticizing Brennan’s efforts to frame the illegal actions of illegal immigrants as “less than” when compared to others who had broken the law.

“100 percent of them are in the U.S. illegally. The real headline should be ‘Biden and Mayorkas allowed tens of thousands of violent criminal illegals to remain in the country,’ but these propagandists aren’t about to go there,” one said.