By Benjamin Arie
Are illegal aliens just good people searching for a better life, or criminals who bring problems over the border?
That question has been at the core of the immigration debate for years. As with most things, the answer is somewhere in the middle … but an eye-opening new report makes it clear that illegal immigrants commit far more crimes than many on the left would have you believe.
The United States Sentencing Commission has released its annual report, which digs deep into federal crime data for the 2018 fiscal year. This report is a goldmine of information about offenders at the federal level — and it contains a fact that needs to be seen by every American concerned about immigration.
“For 2017, data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows non-citizens comprise about 7 percent of the country’s population, but the 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics shows they committed more than 40 percent of all federal crimes,” The American Mirror noted.
Indeed, Hispanics are dramatically over-represented in the federal sentencing data, with illegal immigration a major reason.
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“In fiscal year 2018, 54.3 percent of all offenders were Hispanic, 21.2 percent were White, 20.6 percent were Black, and 3.8 percent were of another race. Non-U.S. Citizens accounted for 42.7 percent of all federal offenders,” the government report said.
“Immigration cases accounted for the largest single group of offenses in fiscal year 2018, comprising 34.4 percent of all reported cases,” the government document continued.
Of course, a skeptic might point out that this by itself isn’t so surprising. Illegal immigration is a federal crime and widespread, so it makes sense that aliens — many of them Hispanic — receive a high number of federal sentences.
But the numbers show deeply disturbing trends.
It isn’t just that aliens are being prosecuted for immigration crimes. Actually, they are also committing many other crimes at an alarming rate.
“Cases involving drug possession, for example, were nearly evenly split between citizens and non-citizens with 361 and 339, respectively,” The American Mirror noted. But remember, non-citizens are only about 7 percent of the population.
“In other words, non-citizens violated federal drug possession laws at a rate roughly seven times higher than citizens,” [emphasis added] the outlet wrote.
full story at https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/fed-commission-finds-42-federal-crimes-committed-illegals/