A little discussed report by the United States Sentencing Commission has been released with an astonishing figure: Of the more than 2,200 people who received federal sentences for drug possession in fiscal year 2014, almost three-quarters of them were illegal immigrants. In addition, illegal immigrants reportedly made up more than one-third of all federal sentences for all crimes.
Unfortunately, the comments of Donald Trump have sucked the oxygen out of the public debate on the significance of such crime trends. According to new data from the United States Sentencing Commission. While crimes by illegal immigrants are slightly down (38.6 percent of all federal sentencings in 2013 but 36.7 percent in 2014), they still represent a huge percentage of such offenses in the federal system given that they represent an estimated 3.5 percent of the U.S population. There is available data from the states, though individual states likely have figures.
This includes 20 percent of the kidnapping/hostage taking sentences in 2014 and 12 percent of the murder sentences. Another 19.4 percent of national-defense related sentences are attributed to illegal immigrants.
If you combine both illegal and legal aliens, the population represents almost half of all sentences — 42 percent of all federal sentencing in 2014.
These figures are according to the Washington Examiner and have been reported on other sites. I went and looked at the Sentencing Commission report and confirmed the figure on non-citizens but I could not locate the specific numbers on illegal immigrants. If anyone has a link, it would be great to add it. Here are the general sourcebook tables from the United States Sentencing Commission.
Mexicans are much more likely to be sentenced in Federal Court on drug charges because MEXICANS ARE THE DRUG CARTEL OPERATING IN THIS COUNTRY. Mexicans quickly and violently filled the vacuum when the mafia was in large part dismantled, and Colombia took back their country. Much of the violent crime in Chicago is due to Mexican cartels using the logistically situated Chicago as a hub to distribute drugs throughout the country. Black gangs are for most part the foot soldiers in the US drug business. Russian organized crime work w/ the Mexicans on the higher level distribution, as do some Asian gangs. The Dept. of Justice do not file criminal charges solely for being here illegally.
This is an invasion, not any form of immigration described by the Founders as being similar assimilable individuals who speak English and who share familial, social, cultural and ideological positions . There is no rationale for immediately moving a large segment of the population of a contiguous, adjacent country into this one.
As many “guest worker” passes as needed should be issued. Free businesses have the right to hire free foreign citizens who freely choose to work in the U.S. Per the Constitution, labor unions do not dictate to free Americans, no matter what liberals say.
It is antithetical, unconstitutional, insurrection and treasonous to import “voters” for ideological purposes and to “fundamentally transform” America.
Ben Franklin, “…a republic, if you can keep it.” The republic that Franklin referred to was a restricted-vote republic requiring that voters be male, 21 years of age, European with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres. There was an existential reason for the restricted vote.
Given the lawless, unconstitutional nullification by the Supreme Court last week, Ben Franklin will change his statement to “…a republic, if you can take it back.”
The judicial and executive branches ignore the Constitution and law requiring impeachment by the Congress.
The SCOTUS changes the definition of the word “state” as an illegal, unconstitutional act.
Repeal of America from “executive overreach” and judicial overreach, back to the Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights (subsequent amendments nullified) would be Ben Franklin’s contemporary admonishment.
The inmates have taken over the asylum.
Then I found this older study:
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/RACIAL/Reports/NIHMinoritydrugUse%20report.pdf
Which really broke down figures between poverty/non poverty, metropolitan/non metropolitan, etc.
This showed that Asians/Pacific Islanders had the least use of drugs and alcohol, Alaskan natives and Native Americans had the highest of all of them, and Hispanics were higher in some areas and lower in others.
What I would want to ensure is equal sentencing guidelines. If there isn’t consistency already, there should be a sentencing chart that takes into account past criminal history, current crime, etc, and then do studies to ensure that ethnicity plays no part in sentencing guidelines.
Justice is supposed to be blind. If crime rates are higher in some areas, I would expect more arrests in those areas. But ethnicity should have nothing to do with sentencing outcomes. Do the crime, do the time, should apply equally for everyone.
I think it’s a good idea (if this isn’t done already) for periodic audits of sentencing outcomes to ensure that everything is equal.
Karen S
I’d cherry pick some statistics but I’m a natural born citizen and I won’t do it for less than 15 bucks an hour.
Isaac:
I saw your comment that Hispanics use drugs equally as much as other groups. I wondered if this was true, since I expect drug use to be linked to poverty more than ethnicity, and minorities tend to be statistically more likely to suffer poverty.
I found this study which showed that Hispanic drug use was only slightly higher than whites for men:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377408/
But I noted that the study population were college students. So we did not get a good representative mix of the population.
This study showed that Hispanic drug use was lower than whites:
http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHresultsPDFWHTML2013/Web/NSDUHresults2013.htm
Judy – illegal aliens represent a minority of our total population, and yet they account for 75% of drug possession cases, according to the article.
That’s really troubling. Mexican drug cartels are a huge problem in border states.
I do not think the majority of illegal aliens are drug traffickers, murderers, or rapists. Many of them are good people trying to get a better life. The legal immigration system is supposed to weed out the criminals, focus on the good people, and keep total immigration to a level that benefits systems can support. Countries set minimum criteria for immigrants, and ours are some of the most lax in the world. To emigrate to the Netherlands, you have to demonstrate that you’ll have a job and be a contributing member of society. We don’t hold immigrants to that standard, as one of our core beliefs is that you can rise to success from nothing.
Circumventing our legal immigration system means they blow right past all those safeguards.
And a great many illegal aliens engage in other crimes, such as identity theft, benefits fraud, hit and run because they lack insurance, putting together illegal alien work crews that do not pay minimum wage and are not licensed, bonded, or insured . . . It’s a really long list.
And it’s quite unfair to immigrants around the world, who wade through our admittedly ponderous immigration system. Why do those who live closest to us have the right to jump in front of everyone else in line?
The simple answer is, they don’t.
Securing our border would take the angst right out of this question. Make it as near to impossible to immigrate here illegally, and we won’t need to debate what to do when a part of a family is illegal and part legal, or any other emotionally charged illegal immigration issue.
@Isaac
Sooo, Hispanics are responsible for maintaining the Big Business/Prison Complex and all their profits??? No wonder the GOP is for amnesty!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
” Illegal Immigrants Account for Roughly 75 Percent of Drug Possession Cases” — but do not confuse this statistic in your mind and think that 75% of Hispanics are criminals! I’d like to see the percentage of the Hispanic population that the crime number represents. (If that has already been stated, then I am sorry – I missed it.)
Hispanic and Latino Americans amount to 17.1% of the population, making up the largest minority.
African Americans are the largest racial minority, amounting to 13.2% of the population.
The White, non-Hispanic or Latino population make up 62.6% of the nation’s total.
Race # of Inmates % of Inmates
Asian 3,182 1.5%
Black 78,112 37.6%
Native American 3,945 1.9%
White (includes Hispanics) 122,771 59.0%
Ethnicity # of Inmates % of Inmates
Hispanic 71,032 34.1%
Non-Hispanic (includes Black) 136,978 65.9%
a Banking and Insurance, Counterfeit, Embezzlement 669 0.3%
b Burglary, Larceny, Property Offenses 8,031 4.1%
c Continuing Criminal Enterprise 451 0.2%
d Courts or Corrections 841 0.4%
e Drug Offenses 95,265 48.7%
f Extortion, Fraud, Bribery 12,269 6.3%
g Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses 5,623 2.9%
h Immigration 18,279 9.3%
i Miscellaneous 1,535 0.8%
j National Security 70 0.0%
k Robbery 7,231 3.7%
l Sex Offenses 13,868 7.1%
m Weapons, Explosives, Arson 31,683 16.2%
Despite equal rates of drug use proportionate to their populations, Hispanics are twice as likely as whites, and equally as likely as blacks, to be admitted to state prison for a drug offense.1
More than half of all people sent to federal prison for committing felony crimes so far this year were Hispanic, a major demographic shift swollen by immigration offenses, according to a new government report released Tuesday.
Hispanics already outnumber all other ethnic groups sentenced to serve time in prison for federal felonies.
Hispanics reached a new milestone for the first time this year, making up the majority all federal felony offenders sentenced in the first nine months of fiscal year 2011, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Hispanics comprised 50.3 percent of all people sentenced in that time period, blacks 19.7 percent and whites 26.4 percent.
In comparison, last year Hispanics made up just 16 percent of the whole U.S. population.
The commission’s statistics also reveal that sentences for felony immigration crimes — which include illegal crossing and other crimes such as alien smuggling — were responsible for most of the increase in the number of Hispanics sent to prison over the last decade.
And then deport the illegal back to his home country at that countries expense, and watch the repercussions
Sentencing illegals costs the states money so what should be done is the federal government should reimburse the state and then deduct the costs of internment from the illegals home country or the united nations
Given the statistics, we are compelled to conclude that Trump is right. 40 years ago, as a personal anecdote, my cousin’s pick-up truck and power boat/trailer were destroyed in a crash caused by an illegal alien Mexican drunk driver. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then.
You collectivist liberals who promote illegal immigration and illegal amnesties should inform Americans of the “benefit” of this de facto invasion by Mexico. When Americans stopped increasing the population by choice through reduction of the birthrate in 1960, the powers that be and democrat voter recruiters decided to arbitrarily increase the population through “immigration.” The “campground was full” but you “social engineers” and vote-getters brought more campers in anyway.
Why? Maybe one of you psycho-babbling liberal collectivists could tell us why America allows the Mexican invasion by omission.
One is compelled by the statistics and the anecdotes to conclude that Trump is right.
Oh. Sorry. I just remembered. The battle cry is to “fundamentally transform America.”
My bad (I’m learning Ebonics, of necessity).
forgotwhoiam – because of illegal aliens, Arizona requires legal residents to carry uninsured motorist insurance as part of their auto coverage.
The most tragic aspect of the Dream Act are all the kids who died along the way, who didn’t make it. The parents who paid coyotes to get their kids across who ended up kidnapping them, ransoming them, putting them in the sex trade, or abandoning them to die.
The people who voted for the Dream Act have the blood of the kids it attracted and died on their hands.
Since my repeated assertions seem to be ignored, let me repeat that I am not voting for Trump. He has a good point that our border is not secure. He is not the only person calling for a wall or saying that our borders are not secure.
I don’t care if the border has an impenetrable wall, a moat filled with alligators (except in drought stricken CA), heavily patrolled by drones, or whatever. Our border is so porous than anywhere from 6/10 to 7/10 border crossing attempts are successful, with experienced drug cartels being more successful than others. That means that for the average success rate to be 60%, drug cartels would have a higher success rate.
Considering the billions of dollars we spend on illegal immigrants ranging from incarcerating criminals that never should have been here, identity theft, benefits fraud, and other ways in which we financially pay for them, it may be a net gain for us to build it ourselves.
Just think of what this would do to the improvement of race relations in borders states. Right now, we pay so heavily both financially and socially (crime, drugs, sex trafficking, etc) for illegal immigration, and it’s so very common. Millions of illegal immigrants live here. That causes some animosity and bitterness. There are very serious tensions between South Americans and Mexicans, between legal and illegal immigrants. Remove the entire problem of illegal immigration, and every immigrant you encounter could be presumed legal, having passed a background check, and clear of any infectious disease like antibiotic resistant TB, which is checked during the immigration process. Did I mention that antibiotic resistant TB is on the rise among illegal aliens?
I honestly cannot understand why insisting that immigration occur legally is even a question.
Remember the jet skier killed by Mexicans in front of his wife in Texas?
“Search teams are combing a Texas lake for the body of a man who was allegedly shot and killed by Mexican pirates when he and his wife were ambushed after crossing into Mexican waters on their personal watercraft.
David Michael Hartley, 30, and his wife Tiffany Hartley, 29, were attacked on Falcon Lake, near the southern tip of Texas, police said.
Tiffany Hartley told police her husband was shot in the back of the head as the couple fled to U.S. waters.
The gunmen are suspected to be Mexican pirates who have been marauding on the lake, law enforcement officials said.
Hartley fell off his watercraft after he was shot, according to his wife, who told rescuers and police she attempted to circle back to save him, but the gunmen were still firing shots so she had to abandon the rescue attempt.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials said Friday they believed that David Hartley was dead, but his body has yet to be found.
U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Narcizo Ramos told The Associated Press that he didn’t know whether Mexican authorities were searching their side.
According to Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr., Tiffany Hartley said she and her husband were returning to U.S. waters after sightseeing and taking photos when they saw armed men aboard some boats.”
Paul C
Perhaps one should not prank phone call Macy’s, but what would be so wrong with voicing one’s displeasure regarding a corporation’s very public act, taken against a citizen for demanding that we secure our southern border against the influx of illegals, many of whom are criminals? Sean Jean, or Puff Daddy, or whatever his name is du jour, was–allegedly–involved in shooting a man in the face some years ago. He skipped on that one. He was also involved in a very recent assault involving one of his child’s coaches in school. A fine, upstanding young man. His extensive line of clothing and products is proudly displayed by Macy’s. No problem with that.
TinEar
LOL @1:01 pm.
I’d love to boycott Macy’s, but I can’t seem to resist a great shoe sale. 🙂
In addition, illegal immigrants reportedly made up more than one-third of all federal sentences for all crimes.
Are these crimes including “being illegally on the US territory”? It could skew the figures – an American citizen is always legally on the US soil.
And, moreover, Federal justice mostly involves drug trafficking, unlawful immigration and terrorism, which include more foreigners than the rest; could such studies be done on State crimes, such as robberies, rapes, arsons and so on?
I don’t have one of Macy’s cards, but I am NOT watching their stupid Thanksgiving Day parade on TV this year! Screw ’em!!!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky – I would prank call Macy’s if I didn’t think they had one of those stupid automated systems.
The wall could be built without anyone paying much of anything. The land is scrub covered desert already owned by the U.S. Government. I have no doubt that Americans would be more than happy to contribute to a fund for cement blocks, rebar, and other building materials. I would write a check today if there were such a fund. And the fence could be built by prison labor. Let them do something useful, unless the liberals think they are too busy watching t.v. and raping each other.
TinEar – a significant portion is privately owned, especially in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. So you would have to buy additional land, plus easement to put the fence up.
And by the way, I cancelled my Macy’s charge card yesterday. I’m not likely to vote for Trump, but I believe he should be able to speak out about critical issues without being banned, boycotted and pilloried.