The Trump administration has frequently cited statistics claiming assaults on immigration agents have increased by more than 1,000% since last year.

Thousands of pages of court records reviewed by The Times indicate that percentage is misleading, with the majority of the alleged assaults resulting in no injuries.

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla has said the White House is using questionable statistics to “encourage even more brutal immigration enforcement operations.”

The federal prosecutor faced the jury, brandishing the item he said had been “used as a sword” to assault a federal officer during a July protest in downtown Los Angeles.

The object that Assistant U.S. Atty. Patrick Kibbe said was wielded as a weapon: An umbrella that an investigator needed a special scale to weigh because it was

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