DOJ: 21.9% of Federal Inmates Are Illegals: In the face of reports that illegal aliens commit less crime than native-born Americans, such as this one from the Washington Post, a U.S. Justice Department report released earlier this year found that of the 170,346 criminals serving time in federal prison, 37,242 or 21.9% are illegal aliens. According to 2016 a PEW Research study, illegals make up 3.3% of the U.S. population. The DOJ report also found that just under 36% of all defendants charged with federal crimes were illegals. The Washington Post report also shows that based upon criminal convictions in Texas, illegals commit roughly three times as many crimes as legal immigrants and almost five times as many homicides. Those who argue that this is the result of racially biased police need to explain how police distinguish illegal from legal immigrants when arresting them for crimes, when the immigration status of suspects is typically not confirmed until after the suspect is in custody. If all that matters is the aggregate numbers, then significant gender bias is also at play, as over 93% of federal prison inmates are male.
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