(TheProudRepublic.com) – In a shocking 25-page report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, it has been revealed that illegal aliens made up 64% of arrests for federal offenses in 2018.
This marked a complete flip from 1998 when 63% of arrests for federal offenses were of U.S. citizens. By 2018, 64% of those arrested for federal crimes were of illegals.
According to the 2017 U.S. Census Bureau report, illegals make up about 7% of the U.S. population, but they still “accounted for 15% of all federal arrests and 15% of prosecutions in U.S. district court for non-immigration crimes in 2018.”
In the five judicial districts along the U.S. southern border with Mexico, federal arrests nearly doubled, from 33% in 1998 to 65% in 2018.
Over those 20 years, nearly 95% of the increase in federal arrests was “due to immigration offenses.”
The report also found that most of the illegals arrested were from Mexico (about 40%), followed by Central Americans at 20%. U.S. citizen arrests for federal offenses made up 36%.
From 1998 to 2018, the share of all federal arrests by country of citizenship rose from 28% to 40% for Mexican citizens, rose from 1% to 20% for citizens of Central American countries, and fell from 63% to 36% for U.S. citizens.
In 2018, the top five crimes for which illegal aliens were prosecuted in U.S. district court were illegal reentry (72%), drugs (13%), fraud (4.5%), alien smuggling (4%), and misuse of visas (2%).
Moreover, for U.S. citizens, the top five prosecuted crimes in 2018 were drugs (38%), weapons (21%), fraud (12%), public order (12%), and alien smuggling (6%).
As Breitbart News reported this week, a recent YouGov poll found that a majority of U.S. voters would support a national program to deport illegals living in the U.S. unlawfully.
“The poll, published Sunday, found that 62 percent of registered voter respondents would back ‘a new national program to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally.’ Thirty-eight percent of voters would oppose such a program,” it noted.
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