The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) account on X, @DHSgov, posted five messages on October 27, 2026, defending the removal of migrants to countries other than their own and claiming it arrested people with criminal records in Mississippi. As of the publication of this note, DHS had not provided figures, names or dates for those arrests.<\/p>\n
The Mississippi post, at 12:51 a.m. UTC that day, says no state has escaped the effects of \u201copen borders and mass migration\u201d and that people it describes as rapists, gang members and attempted murderers were arrested in Mississippi. It does not say how many there were, when the arrests occurred or whether there were convictions.<\/p>\n Publication in X<\/p>\n View the original post<\/a><\/blockquote> Four other posts, between 1:17 a.m. and 1:31 a.m. UTC, promote a complete, uncut interview with James Percival, whose title does not appear in the material. In excerpts quoted by the account, the interviewee argues that anyone who calls removals to third countries unfair must explain how they would resolve the case of people with deportation orders whose own country will not take them back. He also claims that, in his view, living without legal status in the country leads to other violations, such as working without authorization or identity theft.<\/p>\n Publication in X<\/p>\n View the original post<\/a><\/blockquote> These are claims by DHS and its official. They are not the finding of an independent investigation, and DHS did not include data in the posts that would allow them to be verified.<\/p>\n In his list of October press releases<\/a>, DHS published daily series of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state summaries, such as Michigan, Georgia, Iowa and South Carolina. That list includes no press release about arrests of migrants with criminal records in Mississippi or about removals to third countries.<\/p>\n The only ICE press release in October that mentions Mississippi, from October 21, reports the arrest of a woman<\/a> following alleged threats against federal agents. It does not concern migrants with criminal records.<\/p>\n\n
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