DHS Report: 23% of All Federal Prisoners are Illegal Aliens
"These numbers show why we need to control our borders."
8.9.2017
News
Mark Tapson
A new Department of Homeland Security report reveals that nearly one-quarter of all federal inmates are illegal immigrants and virtually all of them are in deportation proceedings or already face removal orders.
The Washington Examiner reports that the Justice Department's Bureau of Prison houses 187,855 inmates -- 42,034 of them foreign-born.
The DHS report, created in response to a presidential executive order requiring transparency on prisoner immigration status, said that only seven of those 42,034 have been granted deportation "relief." According to DHS:
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