Texas Criminal Illegal Alien Data
The Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement agencies in Texas participate in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). Participation in PEP enables DHS to work with state and local law enforcement to take custody of individuals who pose a danger to public safety before those individuals are released into our communities. In Texas, PEP begins at the local level when an individual is arrested and booked by a Texas law enforcement officer for a criminal violation of Texas law. The arrested individual’s fingerprints are submitted to the Texas DPS and subsequently to the FBI for criminal history and warrant checks. This same biometric data is also sent to DHS’ IDENT database so that ICE can determine the person’s immigration status and whether the individual is a priority for removal, consistent with the DHS enforcement priorities. The immigration status information is returned to DPS by DHS. The following report is based upon the status indicators provided to the DPS. For the purposes of this report, the term “criminal alien” refers to an individual who has been identified as an alien by DHS and who has been arrested for a state criminal offense, typically a Misdemeanor B or higher, committed in Texas.
Lawful Presence Determined Through PEP
According to DHS status indicators, over 403,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011, and May 31, 2023, of which over 280,000 were classified as illegal aliens by DHS.
Between June 1, 2011, and May 31, 2023, these 280,000 illegal aliens were charged with more than 476,000 criminal offenses which included arrests for 891 homicide charges; 58,738 assault charges; 8,710 burglary charges; 57,038 drug charges; 990 kidnapping charges; 23,369 theft charges; 37,211 obstructing police charges; 2,691 robbery charges; 6,020 sexual assault charges; 6,992 sexual offense charges; and 5,670 weapon charges. DPS criminal history records reflect those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 177,000 convictions including 438 homicide convictions; 21,995 assault convictions; 4,458 burglary convictions; 24,231 drug convictions; 299 kidnapping convictions; 9,248 theft convictions; 15,100 obstructing police convictions; 1,554 robbery convictions; 2,866 sexual assault convictions; 3,281 sexual offense convictions; and 1,917 weapon convictions.
https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/crime-records/texas-criminal-illegal-alien-data
