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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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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.

 

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