发布时间：2026年2月19日，美国东部时间下午2:46 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：迈克尔·威廉姆斯、亚历克斯·利兹·马修斯
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移民 | 联邦机构 | 唐纳德·特朗普
美国国土安全部（DHS）承认，其网站在展示所谓“最恶劣”被逮捕移民的内容时存在大量错误。在CNN就该网站向其提问后，国土安全部于本周对网站进行了修改。
国土安全部于去年12月创建了该网站，其部长克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）和白宫均在社交媒体上大力推广该网站。特朗普政府试图以此为其激进且备受争议的移民执法行动辩护。
该网站目前列出了约2.5万人，以及国土安全部称他们被逮捕或定罪的罪名——其中包括许多最初仅与相对轻微罪行相关联的人。
但国土安全部本周承认，该网站充斥着不准确信息。在CNN对网站进行分析并提出质疑后，国土安全部发言人周二承认，网站上列出的数百名移民的指控描述存在错误。
发言人将这些不准确归咎于一个“小故障”，并称国土安全部正努力修复。周三，发言人表示该故障已“解决”。
CNN对网站的审查发现，数千名被列出的人员被国土安全部描述为因严重罪名（包括性犯罪或各种形式的凶杀罪）被定罪或逮捕。但另有数百名国土安全部认定为“最恶劣”的移民，却被描述为因较轻罪行（包括单次交通违法、持有大麻或非法再入境——这是一项涉及被驱逐后重新进入美国的联邦重罪）被逮捕或定罪。
CNN无法独立核实网站上数千人描述的真实性。
“这是‘最恶劣移民’（WOW）网站的一个小故障，影响了约5%的条目。”
“许多被列为交通违法和非法再入境（重罪）的人，实际上还犯有其他罪行。”发言人补充道，该机构正在“修复此问题”。发言人未回答导致网站上人员描述错误的具体故障类型。
“所有这些人都是被美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）逮捕的，他们都违反了我国法律，其中一些人因非法再入境等重罪被定罪。”发言人表示。
白宫和国土安全部均因利用关于某些移民的虚假或误导性言论作为执法行动的借口，或在描述某些事件时事后被视频或地方官员声明驳斥而面临严格审查。
上个月明尼阿波利斯发生亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）被枪杀事件后，包括诺姆和白宫移民政策架构师斯蒂芬·米勒在内的官员迅速将普雷蒂描述为“国内恐怖分子”，称其挥舞枪支并意图屠杀执法人员。
但后来的视频显示，普雷蒂在被枪击时并未挥舞他携带的枪支，米勒和诺姆均将对普雷蒂的过早描述归咎于现场官员提供的信息。
这并非特朗普政府首次承认其对某些被称为“最恶劣”移民的描述不准确。
《NOTUS》首先报道，白宫曾错误声称一名男子因涉及儿童的性犯罪被定罪，随后承认该照片描述错误（一名白宫官员表示错误已更正，政府将继续宣传“被从街头清除的危险犯罪非法移民”）。
国土安全部“最恶劣”网站还包含移民的原籍国和被捕城市。 CNN的分析显示，部分逮捕人数最多的地点是相对较小的城市，但这些城市拥有大型监狱，这可能表明被拘留者已在联邦监狱内或从州监管机构转移过来。在这种情况下，这可能削弱该机构声称他们是“潜伏在社区中的公共安全威胁”的说法。
被指控的“最恶劣”移民中，近一半来自墨西哥
被逮捕人数最多的城市是得克萨斯州的康罗（Conroe），该市距离休斯顿约40英里，估计人口约11.4万。该市是乔·科利处理中心（Joe Corley Processing Center）所在地，这是一家移民和海关执法局使用的私营拘留设施。其他主要城市包括加利福尼亚州的隆波克（Lompoc）、密西西比州的亚祖城（Yazoo City）和得克萨斯州的伊登（Eden），这些城市人口相对较少，但拥有大型联邦拘留中心。
“那些人根本不存在”
执法机构大小都有宣传行动或逮捕的情况，而国土安全部正面临来自特朗普政府的巨大压力，要求其提升公关形象并宣传逮捕行动。
“展示这些数字、姓名和面孔，展示暴力罪犯，现在就展示！”总统上月在Truth Social上写道，“民众会开始支持ICE的爱国者，而不是高薪的麻烦制造者、无政府主义者和煽动者！让美国再次伟大。”
但批评者表示，问题在于特朗普政府所描述的“暴力罪犯”中，与公共安全相关的定罪比例远低于其声称的比例，即便国土安全部调整了名单以反映更多暴力犯罪者。
“所谓的‘犯罪外国人’绝大多数是被指控或被定罪的交通违法、酒后驾车和移民相关犯罪。”约翰·桑德韦格（John Sandweg）表示，他曾在奥巴马政府期间担任代理ICE主任。
“这是我们在奥巴马政府时期面临的挑战，”他补充道，“我可以这样说——我每天都在处理这个问题——我们说我们专注于‘最恶劣’的人，专注于严重罪犯，这就是我们的使命，要把他们从街头清除。”
但桑德韦格表示，就特朗普政府所描述的问题规模而言，“那种人根本不存在，真的不存在。”
移民 | 联邦机构 | 唐纳德·特朗普
Exclusive: DHS admits its website showcasing the ‘worst of the worst’ immigrants was rife with errors
Published Feb 19, 2026, 2:46 PM ET / CNN
By
Michael Williams
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[Alex Leeds Matthews]
12 min ago
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The Department of Homeland Security admitted that its website featuring what it calls the “worst of the worst” arrested immigrants was rife with errors and changed the site this week after receiving questions from CNN about it.
DHS created the website in December and the agency, its secretary Kristi Noem and the White House have all heavily promoted it on social media as the Trump administration has sought to justify its aggressive and heavily scrutinized immigration enforcement operations.
The website currently lists about 25,000 people, along with the crimes the agency says they were arrested for or convicted of — including many who were initially linked only to relatively minor offenses.
But DHS this week conceded its website was filled with inaccuracies. After receiving questions about a CNN analysis of the website, a DHS spokesperson admitted on Tuesday that the charges against hundreds of immigrants listed on the website were described incorrectly by the agency.
The spokesperson attributed the inaccuracies to a “glitch” that they said DHS worked to remedy. The spokesperson said on Wednesday that the glitch had been “resolved.”
A CNN review of the website found that thousands of the people listed on the website were described by the agency as being convicted of or arrested for serious charges — including sex crimes or different forms of homicide. But hundreds more who DHS considered the “worst of the worst” were described as being arrested for or convicted of far less serious crimes, including single charges of traffic offenses, marijuana possession or illegal reentry, a federal felony that involves someone reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
CNN could not independently verify the descriptions of each of the thousands of people listed on the website.
Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, during a news conference in Nogales, Arizona, US, on February 4, 2026.
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Asked whether drawing an equivalence between traffic offenders and killers might undermine the agency’s public messaging about its operations, DHS said that many of those the agency listed with single minor crimes had actually been arrested for or convicted of multiple crimes, some of which were more serious: “This is a glitch on the WOW website the impacted about 5% of the entries.”
“Many of these who are listed as traffic offense and illegal reentry, which is a felony, have additional crimes,” the spokesperson said, adding the agency was working “to fix the issue.” The spokesperson did not answer questions about what type of glitch could cause the people on the website to be described incorrectly.
“All of these individuals have been arrested by ICE and all of them committed crimes breaking our nation’s laws, including some who had felonies for illegal re-entry,” the spokesperson said.
Both the White House and DHS have faced intense scrutiny for using false or misleading claims about some immigrants as a pretext to justify enforcement operations, or describing certain incidents in ways which were later contradicted by video or statements from local officials.
Following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last month, officials including Noem and White House immigration policy architect Stephen Miller rushed to describe Pretti as “a domestic terrorist” who brandished his gun and intended to massacre law enforcement.
Video later showed that Pretti never brandished the gun that he was carrying when he was shot, and both Miller and Noem blamed their premature descriptions of Pretti on information they received from officers on the ground.
This also isn’t the first time that the Trump administration has acknowledged its descriptions of some immigrants they described as the “worst of the worst” were inaccurate.
In another instance, first reported by NOTUS, the White House conceded it posted a picture of a man who the administration erroneously claimed had been convicted of a sex crime involving a child. (A White House official said the error has been corrected and the administration will continue publicizing “the dangerous criminal illegal aliens being removed from our streets.”)
Taking credit for people likely already in custody
The DHS “worst of the worst” website also includes immigrants’ countries of origin and the city where they were arrested. CNN’s analysis of the site shows that some of the locations representing the greatest number of arrests are relatively small cities – but they contain large prisons, a potential indication that those detained were already in federal prison or had been transferred from state custody. In those cases, that could undercut the agency’s claim that they were “public safety threats” who were “lurking” in communities.
The city representing the most arrests is Conroe, Texas, which is about 40 miles north of Houston and has an estimated population of about 114,000. That city is home to the Joe Corley Processing Center, a privately owned detention facility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to house immigrants. Other top cities, including Lompoc, California, Yazoo City, Mississippi, and Eden, Texas, have relatively small populations, but large federal detention centers.
The social media feeds of DHS, Noem and the White House have displayed a stream of mugshots of people the administration says it has taken off the streets during Operation Metro Surge, the immigration crackdown it has been conducting in the Twin Cities over the last two months. (The administration is now winding down its Minnesota immigration surge, though it is keeping a small footprint of officers there.)
But local officials in Minnesota have accused DHS of padding their publicized arrest numbers by taking credit for arrests made by local law enforcement, who were then transferred to immigration authorities through routine processes.
“This is no longer a simple misunderstanding,” Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell said during a news conference last month.
At best, Schnell said, “DHS fundamentally misunderstands Minnesota’s correctional system.”
“At worst,” he added, “it is pure propaganda, numbers released without evidence to stoke fear rather than inform the public.”
A DHS spokesperson said in a statement: “All of these individuals have been arrested by ICE and placed in removal proceedings.”
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, we are not going to allow criminals to be released from jails and back into our communities,” the spokesperson said.
Among the people who DHS chooses to label the “worst of the worst,” almost half are from Mexico. More than 2,100 are from Honduras; Guatemala and Cuba account for about 1,900 each; El Salvador accounts for almost 1,200; while Iran, China, Nicaragua, Haiti and Jamaica account for scores of people each. Several dozen are from Somalia – a country that President Donald Trump has denigrated repeatedly and which has been a large focus of the administration’s recent crackdown in Minneapolis, where there is a large Somali diaspora.
A federal agent in plain clothes looks on a group conducts immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 5, 2026.
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‘That population is not out there’
It is not uncommon for law enforcement agencies large and small to publicize their efforts or arrests — and DHS has come under immense pressure from the Trump administration to boost its public-relations profile and publicize arrests.
“Show the numbers, names, and faces of the violent criminals, and show them NOW,” the president wrote on Truth Social last month. “The people will start supporting the patriots of ICE, instead of the highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
But the problem, critics say, is that the proportion of “violent criminals” convicted of charges where there is a nexus to public safety is smaller than the administration presents, even if DHS does adjust its list to reflect a larger number of violent offenders.
“The vast majority of so-called criminal aliens are individuals charged with or convicted of traffic offenses, DUIs and immigration-related offenses,” said John Sandweg, who served as acting ICE director during the Obama administration.
“That was the challenge we faced during the Obama administration,” he added. “I’ll just put it this way – and I spent every day working on this – we are saying we are focused on the worst of the worst, we’re focused on serious criminals, that’s what our mission is, to get them off the streets.”
But when it comes to the scale of the problem as described by the Trump administration, Sandweg said, “That population is not out there. It’s just not there.”
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