Thousands of Federal Inmates Are in the U.S. Illegally, Administration Says
By VIVIAN YEEDEC. 21, 2017
About one in five inmates in federal prison are foreign-born, and more than 90 percent of those are in the United States illegally, according to a report released on Thursday by the Trump administration, which has sought to highlight the dangers it says unauthorized immigrants pose to public safety.
Officials at the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security quickly framed the statistics as evidence that the country needed stricter anti-immigration measures, particularly the wall President Trump has pushed to erect across the southern border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/undocumented-immigrants-crimes.html
