Criminal Aliens, Noncitizens Commit More Crimes Than Americans
So why do some people insist noncitizens commit less crime?
The numbers indicate that noncitizens commit serious crimes at a significantly higher rate than Americans.
“Criminal aliens” — those arrested and convicted of crimes while in the US — fill up disproportionately large space in our prisons and jails. That’s according to a government analysis. If anything, the analysis understates the number of incarcerated criminal aliens, since some cities and states do not track or report the numbers for noncitizens.
The statistics fly in the face of persistent claims by illegal immigration advocates who insist that aliens in the US are more law-abiding than Americans and less likely to commit crimes.
Read on for details.
Hard evidence comes from a little-reported 2018 analysis by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). One reason why this information wasn’t widely circulated may be because anyone who skimmed the surface would have read a seemingly sugarcoated summary.
The GAO summary highlighted this statistic: From 2011 through 2016, the criminal alien proportion of the total estimated federal inmate population generally decreased, from about 25 percent to 21 percent. “General decrease?” Readers might be left with the impression there’s been improvement, and so there is nothing to be concerned about.
But a fair examination of the report arguably leads to a far different implication.
According to the census, in 2014, about 7 percent of the US population were noncitizens or aliens—many of them illegal immigrants. That’s about one in 14 people. Yet the GAO says that criminal aliens accounted for one in five, and as many as one in four, prison inmates during the time period analyzed. That works out to about triple the number of criminal aliens that there should have been if they committed crime at the same rate as US citizens.
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The reality may be even worse.
The actual picture is likely worse, since the GAO report only looked at a subset of imprisoned illegal immigrants and other criminal aliens. According to the report, primary data came from the Department of Justice (DOJ) State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), which reimburses a portion of criminal alien incarceration costs. “GAO used SCAAP data because there are no reliable data available on all criminal aliens incarcerated in every U.S. state prison and local jail,” reads the report. On top of that, GAO notes there had been a decrease in the number of states and localities participating in the program, resulting in lower numbers reported.
Criminal aliens are costly to US taxpayers
In terms of cost, federal taxpayers shelled out more than $15 billion during the period studied — or $2.5 billion a year — to keep criminal aliens behind bars in federal, state and local facilities.
Accoring to GAO, 91 percent of federal criminal aliens were citizens of Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Colombia, or Guatemala.
The five state prison systems that had the most criminal aliens were Arizona, California, Florida, New York, and Texas.
There were more than 730,000 criminal aliens in US or state prisons and local jails during the period measured. They accounted for 4.9 million arrests for 7.5 million offenses.
The arrests include allegations of more than one million drug crimes, a half-million assaults, 133,800 sex offenses and 24,200 kidnappings.
Imprisoned noncitizens, over a five-year period, had been arrested for 33,300 homicide-related offenses and 1,500 terrorism-related crimes.
Many were repeat offenders. Of about 146,500 criminal aliens who had finished one federal prison term, about one in six — around 24,800 — already had been imprisoned again at least once.
With many millions of illegal border crossings in recent years, experts say the numbers may well have worsened since the 2011-2016 time period analyzed in the 2018 GAO report.
However, the government does not appear to have updated or repeated its analysis since that time.
Read the full GAO report here: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-18-433.pdf.
wrong alex , you're analysis doesnt match up with FBI crime stats (but you know this as you are a subversive actor)
also, if you remove African americans from the statistics, US citizens have lower crime rate than most european countries
so what you are really trying to say is that illegal immigrants commit less crimes than african americans, which is still not true because 100% of illegal immigrants committed a crime by entering the country.
so if you are not going to count that as a crime then lets not count any american born citizen's property crimes or theft crimes
We shouldn't trust any modern (post-2000) statistics on illegal immigrants coming from the left. Sanctuary Cities and states, along with the intentional obfuscation of data have made it nearly impossible to collect accurate statistics.
Let's start at the beginning...
If illegals made up 7% of the total population in 2014 that would mean there were about 20-24 million illegals at that time.
Despite these statistics, the left and deep-state government have claimed that the total number of illegals is around 11 million.
You can never get accurate data unless you first have an accurate total.
Anyways, I could care less if illegals DID commit less crime than Americans or if they are improving the economy. They're obviously not, but it doesn't matter. They shouldn't be here regardless and even one crime is too many. And none of this even touches on the cultural or national security issues involved.
If lllegal immigration and "diversity" were really so great we'd see it around the world, not just in the West. Diversity is just a code word for Balkanization and the mass redistribution of wealth to foreigners, NGOs and government employees.