As the illegal alien crisis along the southern border
worsens, distressing government figures show that
nearly half of all federal crimes in the United States are
perpetrated by foreigners who are not American citizens
and that immigration cases account for the largest
single type of offense. Non-U.S. citizens committed
42.7% of all federal crimes in 2018, according to
a report issued by the United States Sentencing
Commission, the independent agency created by
Congress decades ago to reduce sentencing disparities
and promote transparency and proportionality in
sentencing. The document also reveals that 54.3% of
the 69,425 federal offenders last year were Hispanic.
“Immigration cases accounted for the largest single
group of offenses in fiscal year 2018, comprising 34.4%
of all reported cases,” the agency writes in its annual
report to Congress. “Cases involving drugs, firearms,
and fraud were the next most common types of
offenses after immigration cases. Together these four
types of offenses accounted for 82.9 percent of all
cases reported to the commission in fiscal year 2018.”
The second largest offense category, drugs, accounted
for 28.1% of federal crimes last year and most cases
involved methamphetamine. Judicial Watch has
reported for years on the enormous amounts of meth
that enter the U.S. through Mexico. A few years ago
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
reported an eye-popping 300% increase in meth
seizures coming from Mexico in one border state
alone.
In 2018 Hispanics committed 9,020 federal drug
trafficking crimes, nearly twice as many as those
perpetrated by blacks (4,670) and more than double the
drug trafficking offenses carried out by whites (4,499).
Hispanics were also charged with more drug
possession crimes (389) last year than any other group.
Not surprisingly, Hispanics also committed the
overwhelming amount of immigration related crimes,
according to the recently issued federal statistics. Of the
23,656 immigration offenses recorded last year,
Hispanics accounted for 22,782. They also committed
the most money laundering crimes (504) compared to
whites (444) and blacks (236), the Sentencing
Commission document shows. The figures only include
convicts that actually got sentenced.
If the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) figures are any indication, federal crimes will
only increase in the years to come. The alarming
numbers illustrate a crisis that appears to have no end
in sight. The stats show a huge increase in, not only
family units (FMU) and unaccompanied alien children
(UAC), but also single men. One Border Patrol sector
alone, El Paso, has seen an astounding 1,816%
increase in family units from last year. In April alone the
Border Patrol apprehended 98,977 illegal aliens
crossing into the U.S. via Mexico compared to 92,831 in
March and 66,883 in February. In fiscal year 2018 a
total of 396,579 illegal aliens were apprehended
between ports of entry on the southwest border and,
with four months left in fiscal year 2019, the figure has
already been exceeded with 460,294 apprehensions.
Two Texas sectors, Rio Grande and El Paso, lead the
pack in apprehensions this fiscal year with 36,681and
26,867 respectively. Most of the single adults are
coming from Mexico (82,834), the Border Patrol records
show, and the family units (114,778) as well as
unaccompanied children (19,991) from Guatemala.
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