claim: "one third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants."
author: lamar smith
evidence_1: dec 26, 2017 ... raise act (s.354) · chain migration · current numbers · immigration ... dhs  reported a total of 58,766 "known or suspected" aliens in the custody of federal  authorities. ... meaning that almost 32 percent of all federal inmates are aliens. ...  in proceedings – illegal: confirmed alien who is unlawfully present in ...
evidence_2: apr 19, 2017 ... illegal immigrants were also involved in 17 percent of all drug trafficking  sentences and one third of all federal prison sentences. ... in california alone,  over 2,400 illegal immigrants out of a total prison population of 130,000 are ...  this was deliberately done to avoid current federal laws that provide for the ...
evidence_3: dec 21, 2017 ... about one in five inmates in federal prison are foreign-born, and more ... fact that  immigration offenses now account for about half of all federal ...
evidence_4: jul 12, 2017 ... second, federal prisons only hold about 10 percent of all prisoners, ... illegal  immigrant incarceration rate down to 0.50 percent – one third of ...
evidence_5: jan 26, 2017 ... mr. trump often cites specific cases of undocumented immigrants committing or  being ... a weekly “comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and  any jurisdiction ... about one-third of noncitizen federal inmates are serving time  for immigration ... order reprints | today's paper | subscribe ...