[Mrs. Don-o]

Does anybody know what percentage of illegal aliens are also criminals? I mean, in the sense of being guilty of a felony, either in the USA or in their country of origin.

I need to know this in order to further a debate with a certain open-borders friend of mine, who is way too influential in my church.

[bgill]

http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05646r.html

This old study might help.

[bgill]

http://www.wwaytv3.com/illegal_immigrants_putting_strain_on_prison_system/08/2008

“According to INS and FBI statistics from 2006, 29 percent of all the inmates in all state and federal prisons are illegal aliens. Imprisoning those inmates costs the state and federal governments 1.6 billion dollars every year.”

http://voice-of-deseret.blogspot.com/2011/05/gao-report-reveals-68-percent-of-all.html

Interesting overall country chart. More info from the study in my previous post. “the number of criminal aliens in Utah’s jails and prisons skyrocketed from 2,018 in 2008 to 3,438 in 2009.”

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf

Page 12 has interactive state map.

Of course, these are just the ones behind bars at a specific time period. This does not include all the ones being protected by sanctuary cities or who never saw a cell or who were quickly released because of over crowding (CA).