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Report: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Federal Justice System, 1998-2018

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  • In 1998, 63% of all federal arrests were of U.S. citizens; in 2018, 64% of all federal arrests were of non-U.S. citizens.
     
  • Non-U.S. citizens, who make up 7% of the U.S. population (per the U.S. Census Bureau for 2017), accounted for 15% of all federal arrests and 15% of prosecutions in U.S. district court for non-immigration crimes in 2018.
     
  • The portion of total federal arrests that took place in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border almost doubled from 1998 (33%) to 2018 (65%).
     
  • Ninety-five percent of the increase in federal arrests across 20 years was due to immigration offenses.
     
  • In 2018, 90% of suspects arrested for federal immigration crimes were male; 10% were female.

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Announcement

Apply now: BJS deputy director vacancy announced

BJS is seeking a deputy director of the Statistical Operations Division. Job duties include—

• serving as an expert in complex methodological research and in applying this expertise to recommending and carrying out strategic decisions on statistical efforts
• fulfilling management responsibilities, including overseeing a wide range of activities across the bureau and preparing or coordinating responses to time-sensitive inquiries from outside entities
• supervising unit chiefs who are responsible for more than four dozen national statistical programs conducted and maintained by BJS.

Apply now. Applications are due by January 6, 2020.

Public comments requested on the proposed reinstatement and update of BJS data collection: National Inmate Survey in Prisons (NIS-4P)

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until January 31, 2020, on the proposed reinstatement and update of a previously approved data collection: National Inmate Survey in Prisons (NIS-4P). Your comments to BJS's request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
• the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
• whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
• the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.

  

Public comments requested on the proposed new BJS data collection: Analysis of Publicly Available Court Data (APACD)

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until December 23, 2019, on the proposed new data collection: Analysis of Publicly Available Court Data (APACD). Your comments to BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
• the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
• whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
• the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.

  

Public comments requested on the proposed extension of a currently approved data collection: Capital Punishment Report of Inmates Under Sentence of Death

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until December 16, 2019, on the proposed extension of a currently approved data collection: Capital Punishment Report of Inmates Under Sentence of Death. Your comments to BJS's request to the Office of Management and Budget, published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
• the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
• whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
• the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.

 

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