64% of all federal arrests last year were of non-U.S. citizens

Re:64% of all federal arrests last year were of non-U.S. cit... by zucker42 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @11:52PM (#20791260)

If you actually are interested in a detailed source, take a look at the original report https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/icfjs9818.pdf

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Re:64% of all federal arrests last year were of non-U.S. cit... by chrisco255 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:09AM (#20791306)

According to that, "Non-U.S. citizens, who make up 7% of the U.S. population (per the U.S. Census Bureau accounted for 15% of all federal arrests and 15% of prosecutions in U.S. district court for non-immigration crimes in 2018 (tables 7a and 13)."

So, the reading I'm seeing, is non-U.S. citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested and prosecuted for a non-immigration based crime.

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Re:64% of all federal arrests last year were of non-U.S. cit... by zucker42 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:02PM (#20797148)

I actually made a comment on that elsewhere in the thread. If you take a look at table 7a, you can see that the disparity is due to drugs. But yes, non-citizens are more likely to be arrested for federal crimes.

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