By Isabella Torregiani
6:27pm PST, Feb 20, 2026
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted that its website listing the arrests of "the worst of the worst" contained incorrect information, prompting the agency to make corrections.
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The DHS website, "
Arrested: Worst of the Worst," lists the names, alleged crimes and arrest locations of thousands of individuals the agency says were apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
However, after
CNN analyzed the site, DHS acknowledged that a large amount of the information was wrong.
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According to CNN's review, hundreds of people on the website had only minor offenses to their names — from a lone traffic violation to possession of marijuana, a Schedule I substance.
DHS blamed a "glitch" that failed to display more serious or multiple convictions.
"This is a glitch on the WOW website that impacted about 5% of the entries," a DHS spokesperson told CNN.
"Many of these who are listed as traffic offenses and illegal reentry, which is a felony, have additional crimes. 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 continued, adding that the agency was working "to fix the issue" and that the glitch had been "resolved."
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Another inconsistency flagged by CNN involved the website listing many immigrants as arrested in small towns. The report suggested this could be "a potential indication that those detained were already in federal prison or had been transferred from state custody."
A similar situation occurred when DHS arrested a U.S. citizen while pursuing a violent offender, only to discover that the person they were actually looking for had already been in jail for more than a year.
"The U.S. citizen lives with these two convicted offenders at the site of the operation," DHS said in defense of the operation. "The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID'd. He matched the description of the targets."
