Charles Stimson, Hans von Spakovsky
Raise your hand if you think all convicted murderers, burglars, drug dealers, thieves, armed robbers, rapists, arsonists and weapons traffickers should be incarcerated. You’re in good company.
Law-abiding people across the political spectrum agree with you. But not the Biden-Harris administration, including Alejandro Mayorkas, its previously impeached homeland security secretary. It has allowed over 95% of illegal aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes to roam the country freely.
The administration’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Patrick Lecheiter, has confirmed this. On Sept. 25, he wrote Congress a letter offering those numbers in detail but in a roundabout way. The letter included a chart that divides the 662,566 criminal illegal aliens into two broad categories: those detained by ICE and those not detained.
The chart also lists, by crime, the number of convicted illegal aliens who have been detained vs. not detained and the number of illegal aliens charged, by crime, in the detained vs. not detained ICE docket.
Keep in mind that in the United States, the median time served for convicted murderers is 17.5 years, 7.2 years for rapists and 3.2 years for robbers, according to the Department of Justice.
As a result of the administration’s mass parole, “catch and release” and other irresponsible immigration policies, the percentage of alien criminals convicted of serious crimes in custody is abysmal:
Burglary: 2.6%
Dangerous drugs: 2.4%
Fraud: 1.9%
Homicide: 2.1%
Larceny: 1.8%
Robbery: 2.8%
Sexual assault: 3.2%
Weapons offenses: 3.4%
Percentages aside, the pure number of alien criminals convicted of serious crimes whom the Biden-Harris administration allowed to roam the country instead of locking them up is stunning:
Burglary: 14,301
Dangerous drugs: 56,533
Fraud: 15,979
Homicide: 13,099
Larceny: 18,234
Robbery: 10,031
Sexual assault: 15,811
Weapons offenses: 13,423
Think about those numbers for a minute. In 2022, there were 21,156 homicides in the United States. » Read More
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/why-are-criminal-illegal-aliens-allowed-roam-us-freely