What IS a "Criminal Alien"?

 If you don't like the numbers, change the calculation method!  

Also works if you don't approve of Trump.

 ...TRAC, a project started in 1989 at Syracuse University, is known as a gold standard source for reporting on federal government data and is known for compiling federal crime and immigration enforcement statistics. News outlets frequently cite its data to report on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. ..

OK.  And....?

... “[They] changed their own methodology, TRAC did at Syracuse, which is, they used to say anyone with a criminal record or criminal arrest was in the criminal category, and then they would break it down and say, he's [got] a criminal conviction, he's under pending charges, or whatever,” Sean Kennedy, Policy Director of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told the Just the News, No Noise TV show.  

“They just took the pending charges number out. So when CNN goes and reports it out, they say, oh, only 30% have convictions....

So then you can have this:

 ...FactCheck.org, a major fact-checking platform, published an article in January that said “[while] the Trump administration insists that it is targeting the ‘worst of the worst’ in its immigration enforcement, it has not provided information to substantiate that, and the data that is available suggests the claim has become less accurate over time.”  

The website specifically cites the declining proportion of detainees that have criminal convictions as evidence of a “transition toward arresting a higher percentage of immigrants with no criminal record.”...

 This is your regular reminder:  when the Left talks, they're lying.