article, you will quickly understand why.
The Pew Research Institute estimates that as of 2014, there are at least 11.2 million illegal immigrants residing in the US. This population comprises approximately 3.5 percent of our country’s population.
Of these, by far, the largest ethnic population, 52 percent, are Hispanics comprised of Mexicans, Central Americans, and Cubans.
Six states—California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York, and New Jersey—account for 59 percent of all illegal immigrants residing in the US. The fact that 66 percent of all illegal immigrants have lived in our nation for over ten years underscores our long-standing inability to address the serious problem of our inability to control our nation’s borders.
Research conducted by the federal government oversight organization Judicial Watch in 2014 documents that 50 percent of all federal crimes were committed near our border with Mexico.
Of the 61,529 criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors, 40 percent or 24,746 were in court districts along the southern borders of California, Arizona, and Texas.
The Western District of Texas had the nation’s most significant crime rate with over 6,300 cases filed, followed by the Southern District of Texas with slightly over 6,000 cases.
The Southern California District with nearly 4,900 cases, New Mexico with nearly 4,000 cases, and Arizona with over 3,500 criminal cases ranked third, fourth, and fifth.
The US Department of Justice documents that in 2014, 19 percent or over 12,000 criminal cases filed by prosecutors were for violent crimes, and over 22 percent or 13,300 cases were for drug-related felonies. That same year, the US Sentencing Commission found that 75 percent of all criminal defendants who were convicted and sentenced for federal drug offenses were illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants were also involved in 17 percent of all drug trafficking sentences and one-third of all federal prison sentences.
The US Department of Justice and the US Sentencing Commission reported that as of 2014, illegal immigrants were convicted and sentenced for over 13 percent of all crimes committed in the US.
According to the FBI, 67,642 murders were committed in the US from 2005 through 2008 and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General Accountability Office documents that criminal immigrants committed 25,064 of these murders.
Illegal immigrants clearly commit a level of violent and drug-related crimes disproportionate to their population.
In California alone, over 2,400 illegal immigrants out of a total prison population of 130,000 are imprisoned in the state’s prison system for the crime of homicide.
The pro-illegal immigrant lobby consistently misrepresents the criminal involvement of illegal immigrants as compared to immigrants who legally enter the US and American citizens saying that illegal immigrants commit less crimes than their counterparts. This assertion is false in most cases. Here are the vetted statistics:
In California, there are just over 92 illegal immigrants imprisoned for every 100,000 illegals as compared to 74 citizens and legal noncitizen immigrants. In Arizona, the rate is nearly 69 illegals imprisoned for every 100,000, as compared to 54 citizens and legal noncitizen immigrants.
In New York, over three times as many illegal immigrants, or 169, are imprisoned for crimes per 100,000, as compared to only 48 citizens and legal noncitizen immigrants. Only in the states of Texas and Florida do illegal immigrants commit less crimes than their legal immigrant counterparts (Texas with 54.5 illegals imprisoned per 100,000, compared to 65 legal immigrants and Florida with 55 illegals imprisoned compared to 68 legal immigrants).
Recent crime analysis by both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Texas law enforcement authorities indicates that between June 2011 and March 2017, over 217,000 criminal immigrants were arrested and booked into Texas jails.
In researching the criminal careers of these defendants, it was revealed that they had jointly committed over nearly 600,000 criminal offenses. Their arrests included nearly 1,200 homicides; almost 69,000 assaults; 16,854 burglaries; 700 kidnappings; nearly 6,200 sexual assaults; 69,000 drug offenses; 8,700 weapons violations; over 3,800 robberies; and over 45,000 obstructing police charges. In determining the status of these offenders in the US, it was confirmed by DHS that over 173,000 or 66 percent of these immigrant criminal defendants were in our country illegally at the times of their arrests
(Source: from The Hill April 19, 2017—“The Truth about Crime, Illegal Immigrants and Sanctuary Cities,” by Ron Martinelli, former Spanish-speaking career detective who investigated violent crimes within the Hispanic and other ethnic immigrant communities, also a forensic criminologist who is a subject matter expert in violent crime, who advocates for facts and evidence).
Using newly released detailed data on all prisoners who entered the Arizona State prison from January 1985 through June 2017, we are able to separate non-US citizens by whether they are illegal or legal residents. This data does not rely on self-reporting by criminals. Undocumented immigrants are at least 142 percent more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5 percent longer sentences more likely to be classified as dangerous and 45 percent more likely to be gang members than US citizens. Yet there are several reasons that these numbers are likely to underestimate the share of crime committed by undocumented immigrants. There are dramatic differences in the criminal histories of convicts who are US citizens and undocumented immigrants
(Source: Crime Prevention Research Center, January 17, 2018—NEW RESEARCH: The impact of illegal aliens on crime rates, data codebook, and “do file”).
GAO examined five states that had large SCAAP illegal alien populations in 2008—Arizona, California, Florida, New York, and Texas. Arizona was the only state where traffic offenses were a substantial percentage of SCAAP illegal-alien convictions. Setting aside traffic offenses, 41 percent of the SCAAP illegal-alien convictions in Arizona were for drug offenses and assault. In California, “about 50 percent of California’s primary convictions related to SCAAP illegal aliens were for drugs, assault, and sex offenses.” Texas had a similar breakdown of SCAAP illegal-alien offenses. In Florida, “about 50 percent of all Florida state convictions of SCAAP illegal alien inmates were for drugs, sex offenses, burglary, and robbery.” And shockingly, in New York, 27 percent of SCAAP illegal-alien primary convictions were for homicide—more than the 23 percent convicted for drug-related offenses
(Source: National Review, “Illegal Immigration and Crime,” January 20, 2018).
Once again, I must digress to address a few issues. There is good news and bad news on the amount of data available to the general public on the internet. The good news is that there is almost an inexhaustible amount of data. The bad news is there is almost an inexhaustible amount of data.
There appear to be two main sources of documentation when applying numbers to the illegal immigration numbers.
The first is the SCAAP (State Criminal Alien Assistance Program), a program that reimburses states and localities for some of the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens and suspected illegal aliens.
State and local entities wishing to get reimbursed for incarcerating eligible criminal aliens submit identification data each year, such as the individual alien’s name and date and country of birth to DOJ by means of a web-based
