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DOJ: 64 Percent of All Federal Arrests in 2018 Were Noncitizens
The Epoch Time ^ | July 11, 2018 | Samira Bouaou

Posted on 08/25/2019 11:52:22 AM PDT by robowombat

DOJ: 64 Percent of All Federal Arrests in 2018 Were Noncitizens

The Department of Justice in Washington on July 11, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

Noncitizens accounted for 64 percent of all federal arrests in 2018, according to new data released on Aug. 22 by the Justice Department. The surge was driven largely by immigration-crime arrests, which have soared to the highest level in at least two decades.

Federal authorities conducted 108,667 arrests for immigration crimes in 2018, up more than five times from the 20,942 arrests in 1998. Immigration arrests accounted for 95 percent of the total increase in the number of federal arrests over the past 20 years, the data shows.

That data also shows a flip in the percentage of arrests of noncitizens compared to arrests of U.S. citizens. In 1998, arrests of citizens accounted for 63 percent of the total arrests. By 2018, arrests of noncitizens had grown to 64 percent of the total.

In a press release accompanying the data, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) noted that while noncitizens accounted for 7 percent of the U.S. population, they committed 24 percent of all federal drug arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all federal fraud arrests.

President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to enforce and strengthen the nation’s immigration laws. While the total number of immigration arrests in 2018 reached the highest level over the 20-year period, the total number of arrests in 2017 was the lowest in 10 years. The increase in total arrests in 2018 was fueled almost entirely by immigration arrests.

While the report doesn’t separate legal aliens from illegal aliens, federal incarceration statistics show that 93 percent of aliens in federal custody in 2018 were illegal.

Noncitizens from Mexico and Central America accounted for 94 percent of the immigration arrests in 2018. Arrests of noncitizens from Central America soared 160 percent compared to 2017, while arrests of those from Mexico grew 48 percent. Notably, federal authorities arrested more Mexican nationals in 2018 than U.S. citizens.

“Federal arrests of Central Americans rose more than 30-fold over two decades, from 1,171 in 1998 to 39,858 in 2018,” the BJS stated.

Further highlighting the role of immigration enforcement in the arrest statistics, the BJS statement noted that the portion of all arrests that occurred in the “five federal judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border (out of 94 judicial districts nationwide)” has nearly doubled over the course of two decades from 33 percent to 65 percent.

“In 2018, a quarter of all federal drug arrests took place in these five districts,” according to the BJS statement. “The number of Central Americans arrested in these five districts almost tripled in one year, rising from 13,549 in 2017 to 37,590 in 2018.”

In terms of prosecutions, more than 78 percent of noncitizens were prosecuted for illegal reentry, alien smuggling, and misuse of visas. The most common prosecutions of noncitizens outside of immigration-related offense dealt with drugs, at 13 percent of the total, and fraud, at 4 percent.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegalscrimes; illegalsinvasion; noncitizens

1 posted on 08/25/2019 11:52:22 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

List of grievances:

1) Debt https://usdebtclock.org

2) Spygate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwbefqcgh9U

3) Aiding and abetting INVADERS

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. - Declaration


2 posted on 08/25/2019 12:02:25 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: robowombat

Careful.

When African American drivers are stopped for reckless driving or other reasons, and see they the officers suddenly are of that group, they have to weigh being accused of too many stops in that month. Some jursidictions have been squeezed by review boards due to “driving while black” tickets. But what can they do, give tickets only to whites after the first week each month? Or say “Please drive more carefully, and sorry to have stopped you today.”? “And I don’t have a liberal judge’s warrant so go on selling stolen guns and cocaine from your back seat stash I saw.”

So thousands of illegals will “Get Out of Jail Free” if it looks like anti-illegals bias?

The murderer of Kate Steinle said he thought about the sanctuary city location before sneaking back after being deported.


3 posted on 08/25/2019 12:06:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

correction:

and the officers see they are in that group....


4 posted on 08/25/2019 12:07:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: robowombat; All

Trump and The Stupid Party (GOP) should make this a well known, established fact.


5 posted on 08/25/2019 12:25:48 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: robowombat

So when does the Squad tell us that we could reduce crime 64% by simply not arresting illegal immigrants.


6 posted on 08/25/2019 12:30:18 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: robowombat

Zero percent for elites. They are praetorian guard. They are leftists and statists working for globalists.


7 posted on 08/25/2019 12:45:03 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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Bookmark


8 posted on 08/25/2019 1:14:34 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: robowombat

btt


9 posted on 08/25/2019 1:17:32 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: frank ballenger

Saw this in action on public transit (SF Bay Area BART) this weekend.

1. Two youths jumping the pay turnstile at Powell Street station (San Francisco).

2. One youth with a lit, smoking marijuana cigarette, on board a Yellow Line train bound for San Francisco, other passengers were screaming at him to put it out (he was holding it, wasn’t “smoking” it, not putting it to his lips, so nice technical save there), he disembarked at another station without any officials stopping him.

Fill in the blanks.

Sorry to have to report this. But it’s achingly apparent to me that these people are smug that the laws are written by and enforced by and apply to OTHER people, not themselves.


10 posted on 08/25/2019 1:58:17 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: robowombat

And most of the rest were comitted by FBI informants.


11 posted on 08/25/2019 1:58:51 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: robowombat

Shhh, we’re not supposed to admit that!


12 posted on 08/25/2019 2:30:31 PM PDT by bgill
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To: robowombat

Ping


13 posted on 08/25/2019 3:48:32 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: frank ballenger

Years ago in Orlando we had some dumbass Black cop whine about getting pulled over because he was Black. On and on he whined.

Not sure what the outcome was but two things stick in my mind:

1. It was dark outside
2. His windows were tinted


14 posted on 08/25/2019 5:42:17 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Liberals - anathema to a free thinking society.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
dark outside and windows were tinted....

In the 1960s comedian Godfrey Cambridge said he came home one night and went to the dark bedroom and heard a sound. It turned out to be his wife but he couldn't see her. "I got undressed and I'm waiting, darling."

Godfrey said "Lemme get the lights, I still can't find you." "Oh", she sighed, "in Ebony it said I could never go wrong this season in my basic black".

15 posted on 08/25/2019 6:57:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Cobra64
Re: Trump and The Stupid Party (GOP) should make this a well known, established fact.

These statistics are highly deceptive.

80% of the 108,000 arrests are for illegal reentry.

Mexican and Canadian citizens are returned to their home country immediately. Almost all the others get a new court date and are released back onto the street.

Almost all the illegals who get sent to federal prison plead guilty to drug charges, document or welfare fraud, or gun possession charges.

Almost all the non-citizens who are in federal prison for illegal reentry have pleaded down from a more serious charge.

16 posted on 08/26/2019 12:48:15 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: thecodont

Thanks for the eyewitness field report.

I have this idea that all of us have similar stories all over the country and someday it will dawn on the average person what is really happening. It hasn’t so far.


17 posted on 08/26/2019 3:32:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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