The Criminals Aren't the Immigrants

From https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/16/trump-confesses-migrants-arent-the-criminals-he-claimed-they-are/:

"Of the over 5.8 million migrants stopped by Border Patrol between fiscal years 2022 & 2024, drugs were seized from only 249 people, Customs & Border Protection migrant encounter data showed...

“Marijuana accounted for more than half of those 249 drug seizures; just 1 in 53,965 migrants were caught with drugs other than marijuana. To put that into perspective, the odds of dying from a bee sting are 1 in 41,076”

https://www.pogo.org/investigations/migrant-drug-seizures-by-border-patrol-incredibly-rare-data-shows

This is the context of Emptywheel post:

"The FBI has ordered field offices to shift a significant number — almost half, in some offices — of agents from hunting crime to hunting migrants....

FBI is not finding migrants by looking for terrorists.

FBI is not finding migrants by looking for rapists.

FBI is not finding migrants by looking for murderers."