What percentage of the federal prison population are illegal aliens?

Question

Any sources would be helpful. Thanks!

Answer 1

17% in 2004

Answer 2

In 2003 there was 270,000 in prisons accross the US of that 270,000 108,000 were in California.And people don`t think we have an illegal problem.People need to wake up and look

Answer 3

The cost of incarceration of illegal aliens in state prisons has also risen rapidly. In fiscal year ’02, the Department of Justice’s State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) distributed $550 million to the states to help defray their expenses, but this was estimated to cover only about one fifth of their outlays. Between FY'99 and FY'02, alien detention increased by 45 percent (from about 69,300 inmate years to over 100,300 inmate years), and that trend is continuing. These expenses do not include the costs of illegal aliens incarcerated in federal prisons, public safety expenditures, detention pending trial, expenses of trial proceedings, interpretation, public defenders, or the incarceration expenses of immigrants for minor offenses that do not meet the standards of the SCAPP reimbursement program. Therefore, it is clear that outlays for Criminal Justice and Corrections costs is today much greater than double the 1996 estimate.

While the cost of outlays for illegal aliens may be shifted by legislation among the levels of government and the private sector, the fact remains that illegal immigration creates an enormous fiscal burden on America and its citizens — a burden that Congress has levied upon us through short-sighted and haphazard immigration policy and succeeding administrations have aggravated by spotty enforcement of the law.

A Call for Action
Americans should demand that Congress and the administration work together to establish control over our borders and the interior of the country so that we have the assurance that aliens, whether immigrants or visitors, are legally present in the country. That objective is of vital importance for the sake of national security as well as for the impact on our tax bills.http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm

Answer 4

Over 29%.

Answer 5

Illegals aliens are not held long from US government. They do have treaties between countries.

Answer 6

and they say there not living off are taxes. I'm sick of footing the bill for even one scum bag illegal. they make me sick. that's on thing i can't stand is an illegal Mexican that lives off honest Americans taxes.

Answer 7

I don't know, but I would like someone to present a reliable source instead of shooting wild numbers off their heads.

Answer 8

... 29% of all prisoners in our federal, state, and local prisons are illegal aliens. ...www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/003656.html

Answer 9

i agree with 17%

Answer 10

84 percent in CA