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Illegal Immigrants Accounted for Nearly 37 Percent of Federal Sentences in FY 2014
Breitbart ^ | 7 Jul 2015 | Caroline May

Posted on 08/02/2015 4:58:23 AM PDT by Mount Athos

While illegal immigrants account for about 3.5 percent of the U.S population, they represented 36.7 percent of federal sentences in FY 2014 following criminal convictions, according to U.S. Sentencing Commission data obtained by Breitbart News.

According to FY 2014 USSC data, of 74,911 sentencing cases, citizens accounted for 43,479 (or 58.0 percent), illegal immigrants accounted for 27,505 (or 36.7 percent), legal immigrants made up 3,017 (or 4.0 percent), and the remainder (about 1 percent) were cases in which the offender was either extradited or had an unknown status.

Broken down by some of the primary offenses, illegal immigrants represented 16.8 percent of drug trafficking cases, 20.0 percent of kidnapping/hostage taking, 74.1 percent of drug possession, 12.3 percent of money laundering, and 12.0 percent of murder convictions.

One GOP aide expressed shock at the numbers, emailing Breitbart News, “These statistics blew me away, and they blow a hole through the oft-repeated line that people only want to come to America to work. It’s tragic so few politicians are willing even to acknowledge the true extent of this problem, but until more do, more Americans will keep getting harmed.”

The USSC data only deals with federal offenders sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) and does not include other categories like state cases, death penalty cases, or “cases initiated but for which no convictions were obtained, offenders convicted for whom no sentences were yet issued, and offenders sentenced but for whom no sentencing documents were submitted to the Commission.”

The data does include immigration violations, of which illegal immigrants represented by far the greatest number of cases: 91.6 percent, or (20,333 cases), out of a total 22,204 cases.

Eliminating all immigration violations, illegal immigrants would account for 13.6 percent of all the offenders sentenced in FY14 following federal criminal convictions...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; criminalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; trump

1 posted on 08/02/2015 4:58:23 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

#AmericanLivesDontMatter


2 posted on 08/02/2015 5:03:12 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (American Taliban - The Democratic Party)
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To: Mount Athos

So politicians continue to buy votes with our money.


3 posted on 08/02/2015 5:11:31 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Mount Athos

Telling me something I’ve known for at least 25 years. All
illegal aliens are criminals. That’s every wetback in this
country. It is a 100% criminal demographic. I call it the
hispandeco demographic.

Hispandeco: illegal alien, wetback, latinoid interloper.


4 posted on 08/02/2015 5:12:26 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Mount Athos

And that’s just the ones that were caught, tried, convicted and finally sentenced. Multiple times that didn’t get through that process.


5 posted on 08/02/2015 5:16:58 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Mount Athos

One GOP aide expressed shock at the numbers.
He must have fell out of the DC bubble or got out from under a rock


6 posted on 08/02/2015 5:18:26 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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Well lets see, at approximately $40K per inmate per year and 40K inmates....$1.6B.

Wow! That's muey dinero.

7 posted on 08/02/2015 5:26:02 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Mount Athos

“Broken down by some of the primary offenses, illegal immigrants represented 16.8 percent of drug trafficking cases, 20.0 percent of kidnapping/hostage taking, 74.1 percent of drug possession, 12.3 percent of money laundering, and 12.0 percent of murder convictions.”

Fine way to demonstrate their acts of love.


8 posted on 08/02/2015 5:28:01 AM PDT by lowbridge
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“The data does include immigration violations, of which illegal immigrants represented by far the greatest number of cases: 91.6 percent, or (20,333 cases), out of a total 22,204 cases. “
I’m missing the point here. I thought from all i read that nobody was being sent to prison simply for being here illegally. There must be sub categories in there above and beyond just being here. I wish it truly was the case mind you but i find it impossible to believe.


9 posted on 08/02/2015 5:36:32 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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Shirley, no one here really thinks the Federals are going to do anything to stem that flood moving across our southern border.
Only in our Hopes, Dreams and Desires. But not in reality.


10 posted on 08/02/2015 5:36:54 AM PDT by Tupelo (Corrupt politician McCain trumps war hero McCain.)
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Just throwing the incarcerated out of the lifeboat would make a substantial difference.


11 posted on 08/02/2015 5:54:53 AM PDT by GoneSalt
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In other words, a lot of people owe Trump an apology


12 posted on 08/02/2015 1:20:00 PM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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There you go Breitbart sticking with the other 90% of America and keep calling these illegal alien invaders “immigrants” and adding to the problem.

Speak the truth and call them what they are and I will read the rest of the story but if you start with a lie how can we tell if you are not lying through out your article.


13 posted on 08/03/2015 4:47:13 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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