Jean-Pierre says ICE data showing there are 13,000 people convicted of murdering illegal immigrants in the U.S. is “confusing” for Americans.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressured by Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy as it emerged that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in the US have serious criminal records.

Jean-Pierre responded to a question about the border patrol numbers by claiming it was a “misrepresentation of the data.”

Doocy said: “13,000 people convicted of murder have crossed the border illegally and are living among us. How great is the threat to U.S. communities right now?”

“I think it’s important to set the record straight here,” she replied. “Some of your colleagues here and several media outlets have fact-checked this. This has been debunked, which was wrongly misrepresented here. So we have to denounce this.”

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Doocy responded, “Can you clarify what the misrepresentation is?”

Jean-Pierre responded: “If we're going to report something, data that's out there, we have to do it in a way that doesn't confuse the American people and certainly doesn't lie.”

“If you look at the total returns and withdrawals last year, that is higher than any year under the previous administration since 2010,” she said, repeating the claim that the story was fact-checked and misrepresented.

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New data provided to Republican lawmakers showed the number of noncitizens who have final deportation orders or are in deportation proceedings but are not in ICE custody.

Of the 7.4 million people on this list, 425,431 are convicted criminals and 222,141 have criminal charges pending.

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In the latest data, 62,231 people were convicted of assault, 14,301 people were convicted of burglary, 56,533 people were convicted of drug offenses and 13,099 people were convicted of homicide. Another 2,521 were convicted of kidnapping and 15,811 were convicted of sexual assault. There are another 1,845 with pending murder charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement rejecting the numbers, saying: “[The data] “This includes individuals who have entered the country in the past 40 years or more…This also includes many who are subject to the jurisdiction of, or currently detained by, federal, state, or local law enforcement.”

Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.