What are some real facts about immigration/illegal immigration?

Question

What facts or statistics can you share on the immigration issue?

Answer 1

In fiscal year 2002, 33.6% of criminals sentenced in federal district courts under Federal Sentencing Guidelines were non-citizens, and 55% of these non-citizens were illegal aliens. This means that illegal aliens accounted for 17.5% of all crimes prosecuted in federal courts, whereas they are less than 6% of the adult population.

There are 400,000 illegal aliens being sought by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "Absconders," and 100,000 of them are criminals. They have been ordered deported but cannot be located.

From 1980 to 1999, the number of illegal aliens in federal and state prisons grew from 9,000 to 68,000. Today, criminal aliens account for about 30% of the inmates in federal prisons and 15-25% in many local jails. Incarceration costs to the taxpayers were estimated by the Justice Department in 2002 to be $891 million for federal prison inmates and $624 million for inmates in state prisons.

In 2004, the federal government reimbursed states and counties almost $300 million for over 200,000 illegal aliens in custody in jails and prisons. This number does not include illegal aliens in jail in jurisdictions that did not request reimbursement (such as Illinois and Wisconsin), nor does it include thousands sentenced to probation instead of jail time.

From 1995 to 1999, the INS released over 35,000 criminal aliens instead of deporting them. Over 11,000 of them later committed serious crimes. The data for 2000-2004 has not been released.

In 2003, the ICE Detention and Removal Office in Los Angeles had the manpower to process only 10-12% of the estimated 40,000 illegal aliens who passed through the county jail (24% of the total of 170,000). Over 35,000 were released back into the community.

Over 23,000 individuals with criminal histories were apprehended by the Border Patrol in 2004 trying to enter the U.S. illegally. No one knows how many crossed our open borders successfully.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office says there are over 300 murder warrants outstanding in L.A. County for illegal aliens who have fled to Mexico. They estimate there are 800 to 1,000 such warrants statewide in California and possibly 3,000 nationwide.

Frequently, an illegal alien arrested for a crime can accept "voluntary removal" instead of going to trial for his crime. He is sent home but not counted as being deported. Thus, he has no criminal record if he re-enters the country. Local prosecutors make this deal to save money, but because of our open borders such criminals often return and commit additional crimes. No one has yet calculated the cost of this practice.

Although all illegal aliens are subject to deportation by law, only the most serious criminals are detained and deported from local jails because of inadequate ICE manpower. Over 200,000 illegal aliens who were incarcerated for minor crimes in 2004 were released back into the community instead of being deported.

In 2004, over 50,000 apprehended "Other-than-Mexican" illegal aliens were released by the Border Patrol due to a lack of detention space. Most of them did not show up for their immigration court hearing.

The Border Patrol does not routinely arrest "coyotes" who smuggle illegal aliens into the country. They are merely sent back across the border with their "clients." They are arrested and prosecuted for human trafficking only after the coyote's file has numerous apprehensions and five documented re-entries after deportation.

Illegal aliens are often released because of lack of detention space, yet the federal agency responsible for detention facilities, ICE/DRO, has never requested the funds to build adequate detention facilities.

Prepared as a Public Service by The National Center for Citizenship and Immigration
Rep. Tom Tancredo, Founder and Honorary Chairman - A Non-profit Organization
P. O. Box 3044, Littleton, CO 80161

Answer 2

businesses choose unlawful extraterrestrial beings for low wages so the businesses can shift the wellbeing Care expenditures to US criminal Taxpayer Ala' Walmart. %. gets a $4 according to hr activity. He works a splash OT. His Mrs. maintains to be at abode with their 2 or 3 toddlers and via his low wages he and his family contributors qualify for US Social centers. the middle type possibilities up the tab. Congress, Wall highway ....will under no circumstances be taught that an Industrialized usa can not stay fullyyt on burger flippers, illiterate "Migrants" and different provider workers. a usa such because of the fact the U. S. needs a stable production base, a healthful inhabitants, a healthful housing marketplace and a "healthful" criminal Immigration plan. we won't be able to proceed to outsource each thing which may well be made extra fee effectively someplace else for the sake of saving some money whilst lining the wallet of the CEOs. inspect the canine food remember and the Matell Toy Lead remember and that's barely the start. China and those different Asian international locations shrink many corners in production reason the U. S. can't be monitoring each production internet site.

Answer 3

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
cuts into the wages of American Workers
To The Tune Of Some $ 200 Billion (With A "B") Annually
According to Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.),
who is head of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus,
"Massive immigration of low-skilled, low-wage workers
depresses wage rates
for people who are at the low economic end of the scale.
The overall effect will be
the decline of the living standard of every American,
or most Americans."

$$40 BILLION Untaxed US Dollars
is sent back to their own nation - ANNUALLY -
In effect, they are LOOTING the Treasury of the United States
as surely as if they went to Fort Knox
and loaded up all our gold bullion on trucks
and drove to Tijuana with it.

The Invaders are also TAKING more
in the way of SOCIAL SERVICES
(HEALTH, EDUCATION, and WELFARE)
Than they pay into the System.
This is so, because many of them work under the table
and **Don't Pay Income Taxes,**
The TAXPAYING CITIZENS
(Thats YOU And ME Folks)
Are Supporting Them

These Invaders are causing a BLEEDING in the System.
As invaders,
they're NOT Playing by the same rules as the Citizens.
This leads to a WEAKENING of Our Nations ECONOMY.

Think Of It As "ECONOMIC TERRORISM"

Answer 4

Education: Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the schooling of the children of illegal immigrants.



Illegal immigrants who take low-paying jobs don't pay enough in taxes, if they pay at all, to reimburse taxpayers the $5,000-plus annually it takes to educate each of their children.


The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states $7.4 billion annually-- enough to buy a computer for every junior high student nationwide.


In California, the $2.2 billion spent on the education of the children of illegal immigrants for one year could:
Pay the salaries of 41, 764 teachers, or 14 percent of California's teachers.
Pay for California's class sizes to remain capped at 20 students for a year, with $300 million to spare.
Buy books, computers, and other instructional equipment for 346, 689 classrooms, 79 percent of all classrooms in California.
Fully fund California 's free lunch program for almost two years.

Answer 5

It is a fact that a young man without a drivers license who was going 90 miles an hour and was drunk was arrested and put in a police car. He escaped from the police car and ran off a bridge, falling to his death.

He was here illegally. His mother, who is also here illegally, is now suing the police department for millions of dollars. This really happened recently in the Washington DC metro area.

While tragic, I can't see how this woman is entitled to anything except transportation back to whatever country she is a legal citizen of.

Answer 6

Only about half come across the Mexican border. Most of the rest enter legally and overstay tourist visa's, student visa's etc.

Answer 7

there are 4 million illegal canadians here