“The articles that I have read indicate much higher percentages than what he is showing.”
All you have to do is google “most wanted los angeles” to see the disproportionate mug shots.
And this neglects the deaths due to drunk driving uninsured.
I just ran the numbers from the GAO and BJS reports on the numbers of prisoners and the percent of illegal alien prisoners. The numbers were from 2009 and 2010.
According to the GAO, there were 10.8 million illegal aliens in the U.S. in 2010. According to the BJS, there were 351,000 illegal alien prisoners in the U.S. in 2010, out of 1.614 million total prisoners.
Illegal aliens were thus 3.5% of the U.S. population, and 21% of the prison population!