CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan claimed on Sunday that nearly half of the illegal immigrants being deported by President Donald Trump’s administration had neither been charged nor convicted of any crimes — but the Department of Homeland Security took a different view of things.

Brennan laid out the situation on “Face the Nation,” where she explained, “The number of detainees held by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has reached a record high of nearly 66,000, according to data released Friday by DHS.”

“Earlier this month, our Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported that roughly half of those in custody have no criminal charges or convictions on their record,” she added, claiming that they were “being held solely because of alleged civil violations of immigration law … 48% of current detainees lack criminal charges or convictions.”

She went on to claim that the number of “non-criminal detainees” held by immigration officers had gone up more than 2,000% since Trump took office. She went on to share the most recent poling data stating that President Trump was slightly underwater on his handling of immigration — 45% approved, and 55% disapproved.

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The DHS struck back in an X post, however, and contested the data Brennan had put forth.

“WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions. Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?” the DHS post read. “But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH.”

WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions.

Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?

But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH. https://t.co/JFQ044rfZe

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 24, 2025

A number of others pushed back as well, criticizing Brennan’s efforts to frame the illegal actions of illegal immigrants as “less than” when compared to others who had broken the law.

“100 percent of them are in the U.S. illegally. The real headline should be ‘Biden and Mayorkas allowed tens of thousands of violent criminal illegals to remain in the country,’ but these propagandists aren’t about to go there,” one said.

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher attempted to claim that President Donald Trump has largely been treated like any other president — but Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, stopped him in his tracks.

Maher spoke with Trump — the wife of President Trump’s second son, Eric — on his “Club Random” podcast, and she made the point that her entire family had been put through the wringer over almost a decade. Maher pushed back, arguing that it was simply a part of being a public figure — and that it may have been more pronounced simply because he was the President of the United States — but Lara Trump thought otherwise.

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TRUMP: “Our family has been scrutinized, attacked under a microscope — I would probably argue more than any family.”

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— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 24, 2025

“Our family has been scrutinized, attacked under a microscope — I would probably argue more than any family,” Trump began.

“Well, of course — because your father-in-law is the president,” Maher pushed back.

“It’s not just that he’s the president — it’s that he’s Donald Trump as the president,” Trump argued. “They’ve gone after all of us in such an aggressive way.”

“They would go after anybody,” Maher was not convinced. “They didn’t go after Obama and Clinton in an aggressive way?”

“Not like this, Bill,” Trump insisted.

Maher still made it clear that he wasn’t buying it: “Oh, please.”

“Really!? When did you see Obama and Clinton’s residences, personal private property, raided by the FBI?” Trump asked. “When did they have indictments against them to put them in jail for the rest of their life that everybody can agree were a little outrageous, Bill? Like, really!?”

Maher agreed that the raid on Mar-a-Lago was probably “over the top,” but went on to say that if he didn’t want his bathroom raided, Trump “probably shouldn’t be keeping files in [the] bathroom.”

Eric Trump faced a similar line of questioning in early November when “The Daily T” host Tim Stanley asked, “Some of the siege that you faced — and I understand why it was very personal and distressing — can you accept that some of it was just people legitimately disagreeing with your father’s policies and using every lever available, as people generally do in politics, in order to push back?”

The president’s son said that he certainly understood some attacks would come with public life, but argued it was “different than raiding somebody’s house. That’s different than subpoenaing their children with the intent to literally try and bankrupt a company,” he continued. “That’s different than calling every financial institution and telling them to debank a person. That’s different than making up dirty dossiers saying that there were golden you-know-whats happening with prostitution when it was totally fabricated and paid by the opposition.”