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Source: Immigration Report
Newly released statistics from the Department of Homeland Security show:
- In 2002, the federal government located 1,062,279 deportable aliens, of whom:
97 percent had entered the country illegally;
93 percent were from Mexico;
90 percent were apprehended by the Border Patrol;
88 percent were apprehended along the southern border.
- In 2002, 1,082,174 aliens were expelled from the U.S.;
86 percent submitted to removal without a legal battle;
14 percent were removed after a formal procedure.
- Of those who were removed by a formal procedure:
37 percent had entered illegally;
28 percent had attempted fraudulent entry into the United States;
25 percent were criminals;
8 percent had previously been removed and were ineligible for re-entry.
New data from the federal Bureau of Prisons show that 29 percent of the federal prisoner population (or 47,570) are immigrants. This is a slight increase from 1995, when the figure was 25 percent.
(The figure would be much higher if state prisoners were counted, but current data are not available on the nativity status of those additional inmates. Less than eight percent of the country’s prison population are in federal prisons.)
Prisoners from Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic together account for more than one-fifth of the total federal prisoner population.
Incarceration of criminal aliens cost federal prisons $891 million in 2002, according to the most recent available figure from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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