Reflecting on Alien Prisoner Drug Offender Sentence Reductions
By Dan Cadman, May 12, 2017
Several times previously I've spoken about "criminal justice reform" as it relates to alien felons and drug offenders, and in less-than-glowing terms (see here, here, and here) because it seemed then, and seems to me now, that where alien criminals are concerned, the "reforms" are just one more way our government proves it isn't serious about border control — because many of the aliens benefiting from such reforms, whether via legislation or amendment of sentencing guidelines to provide for retroactive downward departures, are cross-border violators and drug traffickers who got caught moving their packages of death into our country.
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has very recently issued its "U.S. Sentencing Commission 2014 Drug Guidelines Amendment Retroactivity Data Report". The introduction explains the relevance of the report, and why data is only now being released:
http://cis.org/cadman/reflecting-alien-prisoner-drug-offender-sentence-reductions
