The Truth-o-Meter says: True | Sean Hannity says illegal immigrants account for up to 75 percent of convictions for selected crimes
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During Austin tapings of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity thrice showed figures suggesting immigrants living in the U.S. without legal permission have lately been convicted of up to 75 percent of federal crimes. In back-to-back August 2016 episodes featuring Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Hannity presented a slide listing the percentage of "illegal immigrant federal convictions" in fiscal 2015 for five crimes. On night one, most noticeably, Hannity showed the slide at the top of his show while saying "in the last year alone, illegal immigrants" were "responsible for 18 percent of drug trafficking; 30 percent of kidnapping/hostage ...
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