DOJ: One in Four Federal Inmates Is Foreign-Born

[Danke]

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/doj-one-four-federal-inmates-foreign-born/

Nearly a quarter of the inmates in federal prisons were born outside the United States, and more than half of those have final deportation orders, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.
The Justice Department published statistics on the prison population to comply with directives in President Donald Trump’s January executive order (http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/kellys-dhs-gets-serious-about-immigration-enforcement/) overhauling the immigration system.

“Illegal aliens who commit additional crimes in the United States are a threat to public safety and a burden on our criminal justice system.”
The foreign-born prison population as of March 25 totals 45,493, or 24 percent of all federal inmates. Of that group, 3,939 now are American citizens. That leaves 41,554 inmates who remain citizens of foreign countries. Some 22,541 of them, or 54.4 percent, have final orders to be deported when they complete their sentences. Another 33.4 percent, 13,886, are under investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for possible deportation.




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“Illegal aliens who commit additional crimes in the United States are a threat to public safety and a burden on our criminal justice system,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a prepared statement. “This is why we must secure our borders through a wall and effective law enforcement, and we must strengthen cooperation between federal, state and local governments as we strive to fulfill our sacred duty of protecting and serving the American people.”
A small number of prisoners — 26, or .1 percent of all foreign-born inmates — have been granted asylum, while another 5,101 have been targeted by ICE for deportation but are fighting it.
Even after subtracting out foreign-born prisoners who now are U.S. citizens, the prison federal prison population still is about 22 percent immigrant.

Foreign-Born Federal Prisoners


Federal inmates born outside United States







Category
Number


Deportation ordered
22.5K


Under ICE investigation
13.9K


Deportation pending
5.1K


U.S. citizens
3.9K


Granted asylum
26










Total
45.5K





Source: Department of Justice

“It is a startling percentage, even when you consider some of these are people who are incarcerated for immigration violations,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. “These high numbers show you there is a nexus between illegal immigration and crime.”
The Justice Department did not provide a breakdown of the crimes for which the immigrants are serving time. But separate data collected by the U.S. Sentencing Commission offers a snapshot. In fiscal year 2015, the most recent available, federal judges sentenced 29,166 non-citizens. Some 66 percent of prisoners were serving time for immigration violations.
Other common charges against immigrants included drug trafficking, drug possession, fraud and firearms offenses.
Using the average cost per inmate in the federal prison system, the expense of incarcerating non-citizens is more than $1.2 billion a year.
“It’s a cost that can be reduced if we do a better job of controlling immigration, especially illegal immigration,” Vaughan said.
David Cross, a spokesman for Oregonians for Immigration Reform, said he was ecstatic about the Justice Department’s move toward transparency.
“I’m very excited about it,” said Cross, who has been collecting data about the immigrant population in the state prison system for years. “This really will hold people accountable if they have these statistics.”
http://cdn.lifezette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/border1_1170x880_acf_cropped-360x210.jpg (http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/house-gops-border-security-sleight-hand/)House GOP’s Border-Security Sleight of Hand (http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/house-gops-border-security-sleight-hand/)Republicans add cash to DHS budget with one hand, take away funds with the other (http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/house-gops-border-security-sleight-hand/)The U.S. Marshals Service since April 5 has been providing ICE officials with daily reports of foreign-born pretrial detainees, according to the Justice Department. Officials said ICE expects that its analysis of the data will soon be complete.
The department also indicated it intends to expand collection of data about immigrants in state prisons and local jails, where no program currently exists.
Vaughan said she expects so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions to resist those data-collection efforts.
“They don’t want to know, and they won’t want anyone else to know … They want that to be a secret,” she

[oyarde]

That sounds expensive . Those of you still free better be earning good .

[Zippyjuan]

Of the "foreign born inmates",


Some 66 percent of prisoners were serving time for immigration violations.

meaning they didn't commit any actual crimes other than existing without the right papers. Millions of your tax dollars are paying to keep them in jail for that. That converts to 14,128 out of 2.2 million prisoners are illegal immigrants who committed actual crimes (0.6% of the prison population).


the expense of incarcerating non-citizens is more than $1.2 billion a year.

[Danke]

Normally, the ACLU promotes transparency in government and the ability of the public to access public records. But apparently that changes when transparency might reveal damaging information that hurts their opposition to President Trump’s common-sense, revised executive order temporarily suspending entry from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa.
How else can one explain the ACLU’s criticism of a little-noticed provision in the executive order that requires the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to, among other things, report on the “number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women” in the U.S., like the “honor” killings committed by foreign nationals? That provision will also require public reporting on the number of foreign nationals charged/convicted of “terrorism-related offenses” or removed from the country for terrorism-related activities.
President Trump announced in his speech to Congress that the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office (VOICE) would help victims of crimes committed by aliens. There’s also a provision in his Jan. 25 executive order directing DHS to provide “a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens” on a weekly basis. Yet the Left and the media (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/20cb3e3adefa45eb933a7ac6acc207d6/trumps-office-immigrant-crime-dramatic-overhaul) again made the claim that aliens commit less crime than native-born citizens and that the only “cruel” purpose of these actions is to “tag immigrants as criminals.”
According to a recent Associated Press article (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/20cb3e3adefa45eb933a7ac6acc207d6/trumps-office-immigrant-crime-dramatic-overhaul), “multiple studies have concluded that immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native-born U.S. citizens.” But the issue isn’t non-citizens who are in this country legally, and who must abide by the law to avoid having their visas revoked or their application for citizenship refused. The real issue is the crimes committed by illegal aliens. And in that context, the claim is quite misleading, because the “multiple studies” on crimes committed by “immigrants” — including a 2014 study (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07418825.2012.659200?scroll=top&needAccess=true) by a professor from the University of Massachusetts, which is the only one cited in the article — combine the crime rates of both citizens and non-citizens, legal and illegal.
That isn’t the only problem with the study. Instead of using official crime data, it uses “self-reported criminal offending and country of birth information.” For obvious reasons, there is little incentive for anyone, let alone criminal aliens, to self-report “delinquent and criminal involvement.” When it comes to self-reporting criminal activity, some respondents will, no doubt, exaggerate. Others will flat out lie. Furthermore, many respondents will likely not disclose if they are a non-citizen out of fear of discovery and deportation.
These claims overlook disturbing actual data on crimes committed by criminal aliens. For example, the Government Accountability Office released two unsettling reports in 2005 on criminal aliens who are in prison for committing crimes in the United States, and issued an updated report in 2011.
The first report (GAO-05-337R (http://www.gao.gov/assets/100/93090.pdf)) found that criminal aliens (both legal and illegal) make up 27 percent of all federal prisoners. Yet according (http://cis.org/ImmigrantCrime) to the Center for Immigration Studies, non-citizens are only about nine percent of the nation’s adult population. Thus, judging by the numbers in federal prisons alone, non-citizens commit federal crimes at three times the rate of citizens.
The findings in the second report (GAO-05-646R (http://www.gao.gov/assets/100/93167.pdf)) are even more disturbing. This report looked at the criminal histories of 55,322 aliens that “entered the country illegally and were still illegally in the country at the time of their incarceration in federal or state prison or local jail during fiscal year 2003.” Those 55,322 illegal aliens had been arrested 459,614 times, an average of 8.3 arrests per illegal alien, and had committed almost 700,000 criminal offenses, an average of roughly 12.7 offenses per illegal alien.
Out of all of the arrests, 12 percent were for violent crimes such as murder, robbery, assault and sex-related crimes; 15 percent were for burglary, larceny, theft and property damage; 24 percent were for drug offenses; and the remaining offenses were for DUI, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, weapons, immigration, and obstruction of justice.
The 2011 GAO report (http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/316959.pdf) wasn’t much different. It looked at 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Those aliens were arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million criminal offenses. Sixty-eight percent of those in federal prison and 66 percent of those in state prisons were from Mexico. Their offenses ranged from homicide and kidnapping to drugs, burglary, and larceny.
Once again, these statistics are not fully representative of crimes committed by illegal aliens: This report only reflects the criminal histories of aliens who were in prison. If there were a way to include all crimes committed by criminal aliens, the numbers would likely be higher because prosecutors often will agree to drop criminal charges against an illegal alien if they are assured that immigration authorities will deport the alien.
The GAO reports also highlight another important flaw in the study (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07418825.2012.659200?scroll=top&needAccess=true) referenced by the Associated Press. It uses survey data from a nationally representative sample of people living in the United States. Thus, the study does not take into account some potentially key factors highlighted in the GAO reports: that criminal aliens from Mexico disproportionately make up incarcerations (GAO-05-337R (http://www.gao.gov/assets/100/93090.pdf)) and that most arrests are made in the three border states of California, Texas, and Arizona (GAO-05-646R (http://www.gao.gov/assets/100/93167.pdf) and GAO-11-187 (http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/316959.pdf)).
Every crime committed by an illegal alien is one that would not have occurred if that alien wasn’t in the United States in the first place.
One 2001 study (https://doi-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.1093/aler/aht017) that does take country of origin and geographic concentration factors into account found that Mexican immigrants “commit between 3.5 and 5 times as many crimes as the average native.” It also pointed out the large concentration of Mexican immigrants in the Southwest, which indicates that a nation-wide sample may not represent what is happening in states with a large concentration of criminal aliens.
Although there are no perfect (http://cis.org/ImmigrantCrime) measures of crimes committed by criminal aliens, it has certainly not been substantiated, as the Associated Press article states, that illegal aliens commit crimes at a lesser rate than either native-born or naturalized American citizens. In fact, existing data seems to show that the opposite is likely true.
But we do know one thing for sure. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is one that would not have occurred if that alien wasn’t in the United States in the first place. That includes the hundreds of thousands of crimes committed by the 55,322 illegal aliens in the GAO study who victimized countless numbers of Americans.
So despite the criticism from the ACLU and others, requiring the federal government to keep track of and regularly report on the victimization of Americans by illegal aliens is not only a good idea, it is something that the American people should demand.

This piece originally appeared in Conservative Review





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[dannno]

Of the "foreign born inmates",



meaning they didn't commit any actual crimes other than existing without the right papers.

How do you know it doesn't mean they were serving time for a crime AND for immigration violations?

[Danke]

How do you know it doesn't mean they were serving time for a crime AND for immigration violations?


My guess most were arrested for a crime(s) and are now awaiting deportation.

[oyarde]

How do you know it doesn't mean they were serving time for a crime AND for immigration violations?

Here , that would be the case because otherwise they would not be detained .

[phill4paul]

Funding is the only obstacle to Federal detention. Please, give more funds.

[Danke]

Funding is the only obstacle to Federal detention. Please, give more funds.

Save money on ship them to Injun reservations.

[timosman]

Save money on ship them to Injun reservations.

Train them in flipping bits on computers and they would be ready to work for an IT consulting company.

[twomp]

America can't be great again until its prisons are filled with Americans!!

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201502/adam-bluestein/the-most-entrepreneurial-group-in-america-wasnt-born-in-america.html


The Most Entrepreneurial Group in America Wasn't Born in America
Immigrants now launch more than a quarter of U.S. businesses

Derek Cha arrived in America as a 12-year-old with his parents and three siblings. They came for familiar reasons: "In 1977, South Korea was a poor country," Cha says. "My parents were looking for better opportunities and education for us." After the family settled in California, his mother worked as a seamstress; his father had jobs as a dishwasher and janitor. Cha delivered newspapers, helped his father with cleaning work after school, and got his first job at McDonald's at age 16.

Today, at 49, Cha is the owner of the 350-store chain of SweetFrog frozen-yogurt shops, which has more than $34 million in annual revenue. He employs about 800 part- and full-time workers in the 70-some locations he operates himself. (Like all the companies featured in this story, SweetFrog made the 2014 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing companies.) Cha founded the Richmond, Virginia-based business in 2009, as the U.S. was slowly emerging from deep recession.

Risky? Yes. But increasingly, it is immigrant entrepreneurs like Cha who are most willing to take the risk of starting a business--and without the growth of immigrant-owned businesses like Cha's, the recession would have been much worse. From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased by more than 50 percent, while the native-born startup rate declined by 10 percent, to a 30-year low. Immigrants today are more than twice as likely to start a business as native-born citizens.

Despite accounting for only about 13 percent of the population, immigrants now start more than a quarter of new businesses in this country. Fast-growing ones, too--more than 20 percent of the 2014 Inc. 500 CEOs are immigrants. Immigrant-owned businesses pay an estimated $126 billion in wages per year, employing 1 in 10 Americans who work for private companies. In 2010, immigrant-owned businesses generated more than $775 billion in sales. If immigrant America were a stock, you'd be an idiot not to buy it.

Yet U.S. immigration policy has largely ignored the contribution of immigrant-launched businesses. Despite the bipartisan popularity of business-friendly proposals, including increasing the cap on H-1B work visas for skilled workers and creating a visa category for venture-backed entrepreneurs, the public debate frequently devolves into shouting matches over whether people should be deported and how quickly.
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[timosman]

Zippy attempts to derail the thread. The attempt is not successful. :rolleyes: