Fox News reports new
Justice Department statistics as follows:
According to the data, there are 39,455 suspected or confirmed non-citizens currently in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, which amounts to 21 percent of the total federal prison population. Of the total 37,557 confirmed immigrants in federal custody, 94 percent were illegal immigrants.
And since we don't imprison people for being here illegally, those folks are all convicted felons. Interviewed by Tucker Carlson, pundit Mark Steyn reacted to these figures:
These statistics, which for political correctness reasons we were prevented from knowing in recent years, show that this country is, in effect, importing a criminal class.
Steyn added that federal prisoners are only 10% of the total imprisoned population, meaning there are very likely close to half a million illegal aliens in our local, state and federal lockups. Imagine what they cost us to incarcerate every year, how much we could save by keeping them out.
