30 percent of federal prisoners are immigrants, DOJ/DHS reports https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/30-percent-federal-prisoners-are-immigrants-dojdhs/ Thousands of Federal Inmates Are in the U.S. Illegally https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/undocumented-immigrants-crimes.html
Immigration violations will land you in federal prison. You are too smart to fall for that stuff. I think this is closer to the statistics you intended: (From NY Times) "There were 785 total homicide convictions in Texas in 2015. Of those, native-born Americans were convicted of 709 homicides, illegal immigrants were convicted of 46 homicides, and legal immigrants were convicted of 30 homicides."
Rivera's lawyer has denied Rivera was in the U.S. illegally. Law enforcement says he used a stolen I.D. Rivera came to the U.S. as a child. Rivera has a seventh or eighth grade education. Law enforcement said he confessed to the crime. If ever there was a case were a defendant was going to need a top notch criminal defense lawyer this is it! He is going to be confronted with a lynch mob mentality and the President will do what he can to poison the jury pool. I just hope he gets a fair trial. (He was a farm hand on a ranch owned by a prominent Republican politician (I believe) and was said to have had a good work record.
Actually all the articles about the Federal prisons clearly state the immigrants are in there for very serious violent or drug crimes not for immigration violations.
From your source: The proportion of unauthorized immigrants in federal prison may be explained partly by the fact that immigration offenses now account for about half of all federal prosecutions, including those for smuggling people into the United States, illegally entering the country and illegally re-entering the country after being deported. The report did not specify which types of crimes the foreign-born inmates were convicted of, but senior administration officials said future reports would include such information. When in life confronted with data that does not seem to make much sense, question it. In this case we have data that makes sense, but the interpretation is questionable.
Immigrant charged in Iowa student's death was known by alias https://www.wral.com/immigrant-charged-in-iowa-student-s-death-was-known-by-alias/17821606/ The Mexican man charged with abducting and killing an Iowa college student was known for years on the dairy farm where he worked by another name: John Budd. The alias has emerged as Cristhian Bahena Rivera's employer, a cattle operation owned by a prominent Republican family, faces questions over whether its managers were aware of any warning signs that he was in the country illegally. The name under which Rivera was hired and paid for the last four years was confirmed by three people with knowledge of his employment history. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information during an ongoing criminal investigation. One of the people said Rivera's work identity as John Budd appears in official government records. The employer, Yarrabee Farms, declined to confirm or deny Rivera's work identity. Lori Chesser, an immigration employment lawyer advising the farm, said that companies cannot discriminate against workers based on how they look or how their names sound. arm officials have said Rivera presented an out-of-state photo identification and a Social Security number when he was hired in 2014, and they believed he was the person depicted in those documents until his arrest last month. The farm followed legal requirements to examine the documents and determined "that they appeared genuine on their face and related to the person presenting them," Chesser said. "Questioning a name or other characteristic would violate the anti-discrimination provisions of the law." During his four years at the farm near the small town of Brooklyn, Iowa, Rivera "was called and responded to the name he used in the hiring process," Chesser said. He lived in a trailer owned by the farm as a benefit of his employment, as do about half of its 10 workers. The farm did not use the government's voluntary E-Verify system, which allows companies to confirm the identity and eligibility of employees to work in the U.S. Farm manager Dane Lang has apologized for a mistake in falsely claiming to have used E-Verify in an initial statement on Rivera's Aug. 21 arrest, hours after he allegedly led police to Mollie Tibbetts' body in a nearby cornfield. It's unclear whether E-Verify would have detected any red flags with Rivera's claimed identity, but the farm has said it used a different government service to confirm that the name and Social Security number matched. Police say Rivera followed and confronted Tibbetts while she was out for a run on July 18 and later stabbed her to death. He has been jailed on $5 million bond while awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge, which carries a sentence of life in prison. The federal government has also filed an immigration detainer, which means he would be subject to deportation proceedings if acquitted. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to comment on whether the agency is investigating Yarrabee Farms, which has said that it received dozens of angry phone calls after Rivera was arrested. Tibbetts' father, Rob Tibbetts, has urged the public not to bring his daughter's death into the divisive racial debate over immigration. "The person who is accused of taking Mollie's life is no more a reflection of the Hispanic community as white supremacists are of all white people," he wrote in an opinion piece for the Des Moines Register. Employers typically do not face legal consequences for hiring a worker under false documents as long as they were not involved in obtaining them and had no other obvious reason to suspect they are fraudulent, said Bob Teig, a retired federal prosecutor in Iowa. "Absent unusual circumstances, it would be difficult to show they knew any more than what they were told," Teig said, adding that it would be "pretty racist" to assume a John Budd could not be Hispanic. Whether anyone else knew Rivera as John Budd is unclear. The 24-year-old had a Facebook page under his real name, and his account listed many friends from the central Iowa area. He has a girlfriend and a young daughter, his former attorney has said. Rivera had neither an Iowa-issued identification under any name nor any known criminal history or interactions with police. It's unclear who owned the car that he allegedly used to circle Tibbetts. Rivera's former defense lawyer, Allan Richards, has accused the farm and other employers in the area of turning a "blind eye" to the reality that many of their workers are in the U.S. illegally and employed under false documents. He has said that Rivera came to the U.S. when he was around 17 and has the equivalent of a middle-school education. Erica Johnson, an advocate who directs the American Friends Service Committee's immigration program in Iowa, said the case highlights the "precarious position" that immigrant workers and their employers face. "We have an immigration system that doesn't account for the labor needs or economic realities of Iowa businesses and farms," she said. "So what do you do? Do you rightly not racially profile people and take the information they give you because you need workers?"
Those "studies" are probably leftist propaganda. But even if they're not, crimes by illegals should be ZERO because they don't belong here in the first place. Here are the reported crime stats for illegals in Texas alone from the Texas Department of Public Safety website. The actual numbers are obviously higher because not all crimes are reported. According to DHS status indicators, over 261,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2018, of which over 175,000 were classified as illegal aliens by DHS. Between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2018, these 175,000 illegal aliens were charged with more than 273,000 criminal offenses which included arrests for 505 homicide charges; 30,408 assault charges; 5,396 burglary charges; 34,555 drug charges; 365 kidnapping charges; 15,100 theft charges; 22,213 obstructing police charges; 1,569 robbery charges; 3,212 sexual assault charges; 2,022 sexual offense charges; and 2,754 weapon charges. DPS criminal history records reflect those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 112,000 convictions including 225 homicide convictions; 12,540 assault convictions; 2,967 burglary convictions; 16,762 drug convictions; 152 kidnapping convictions; 6,741 theft convictions; 10,720 obstructing police convictions; 950 robbery convictions; 1,567 sexual assault convictions; 1,076 sexual offense convictions; and 1,194 weapon convictions. https://www.dps.texas.gov/administration/crime_records/pages/txCriminalAlienStatistics.htm
Your flawed "studies" are debunked by facts. Illegal aliens commit violent crimes at much higher rates You can learn all this by reading something like this for instance... https://www.gao.gov/assets/320/316959.pdf Start here and then analyze the murder numbers... “In fiscal year 2005, the criminal alien population in federal prisons was around 27 percent of the total inmate population, and from fiscal years 2006 through 2010 remained consistently around 25 percent.” And then realize we should not tolerate violent crimes from illegals even if they were at a lower rate. The crime rate does not assuage each of the victims.
Tibbets is trying to do what the obnoxious Parkland kids attempted to do. Turn their nexus to a tragedy into a veto over the underlying issue. The point here is not Mollie's views on immigration. It is that this case is a perfect example of why we need to get this under control and quickly. Exactly how many other Mollies are they prepared to accept in the name of cheap labor and dem voters?
You wonder how some earlier civilizations could give up their own children as a sacrifice to the gods and feel honored by it. Boggles the mind. But you don't have to look very far to see modern day examples of people who are willing to sacrifice their own children rather than make the Liberal Gods angry.