New Report on Illegal Immigrant Criminality Reveals Little & Admits Its Own Shortcomings

This report does not include data on the foreign-born or alien populations in state prisons and local jails because state and local facilities do not routinely provide DHS or DOJ with comprehensive information about their inmates and detainees.   This limitation is noteworthy because state and local facilities account for approximately 90 percent of the total U.S. incarcerated population.The federal prison population is not representative of incarcerated populations on the state and local level,  so excluding them from the report means that it sheds little light on nationwide incarcerations by nativity, legal status, or type of crime.  On the last point, it is shocking how unrepresentative federal prison is regarding the types of crimes its inmates are convicted of. In2016, 67,742 people were sentenced to federal prison.   Almost 30 percent of them were for immigration offenses.  Those immigration convictions comprised 100 percent of the convictions for immigration crimes in the United States in 2016.  By contrast, there were only 85 federal convictions for murder out of a nationwide total of17,785 murder convictions that year, comprising less than 0.5 percent of all murders.    IfGarcia Zarate had actually been convicted of murdering Kate Steinle, then he would have been incarcerated in California state prison and he would not show up as an illegal immigrant murderer in this DHS/DOJ report.   What good is a federal report on illegal immigrant incarceration rates if...
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