Sunday, May 27, 2007

Criminal Illegal Immigrants


The U.S. Dept. of Justice provides some stats on foreigners in jail. What I saw didn't differentiate between legal and illegal aliens.

Total prison population in America as of mid-2005: 2,186,230.

Foreigners in federal and state prison: 91,117, or 6.4% of all prisoners.

Foreigners in local jails: not given, but if that 6.4% statistic applies you'd get 47,842.

And that would total about 139,000 foreigners incarcerated in America, of whom an unknown percentage are illegal aliens. I'd guess it's substantial.

Whatever the number, such people are never, ever highlighted in the stories of immigrants that I see on our local public television station. All the ones I see are honest (apart from being here illegally), sincere, hardworking, with winsome children blinking back their tears as they beg for the right to cut in line ahead of the millions trying to immigrate here legally.
For that matter, the people trying to come here legally are never highlighted either. Hmmm....


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