crackrat;694433 said:
ow sorry it was in an earlier report from the GAO latest report was one of the links and it states 27% in federal prisons.this is the second time for
this link about 6 to 8 paragraphs down.
also realize that once a state prisoner is considered to to be illegal alien in some cases they are transfered to federal prisons.
Fine. According to this same report, 49,000 federal prisoners are aliens, at a rate of 27% of federal prisons, bringing federal prison population to 181,481 by the math of the report.
State and Federal prison populations overall amount to about 1.5 million (see
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p04.txt -->"The total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,496,629 at yearend 200"), leaving a total state population of prisoners at about 1.32 million, discounting those serving time in jails (not accounted for here "which excludes State and Federalprisoners in local jails").
So, as I suspected, federal prisons are taking it over the barrel here, holding aliens on federal-based crimes (illegal immigration being by far the obvious explanation), whereas those who commit state based crimes and held for local sentencing amounting to a mere 4% of the total population in the States.
Now. The illegal immigrant population in the US is estimated to be over 8 million. If you believe this figure to be approximately true, you can use information herein calculated to compare-contrast the rate of incarceration of illegal immigrants to current residents.
I suggest you not bother. I just did the wag in my head. Once you factor out illegal immigration itself as a crime and consider only other crimes committed by illegal immigrants, what you are going to find is that illegal immigrants commit crimes significantly less often than natives.
Subjectively, this jibes well with my understanding of the worker immigrant. They come here because they regard us as an opportunity, and they' would like to stay if they could.
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