Pew Reports on the Rise of Federal Immigration Crimes, and Prisons Full of Hispanics Dianne Solis - The Dallas Morning News
go to original March 26, 2014

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Over the last 20 years, convictions on one criminal offense have risen sharply: re-entry into the U.S. unlawfully by an immigrant.

The Pew Research Center has dissected that trend in a new report that looks at data collected through the U.S. Sentencing Commission, an independent, bi-partisan agency.

Unlawful re-entry cases account for about a quarter of all sentenced federal offenders–second only to drug offenses in 2012, Pew said. That’s led to a big demographic change in the nation’s federal prisons. Hispanics accounted for 48 percent of sentenced federal offenders in 2012–the single largest racial/ethnic group represented.

That same year, 92 percent of unlawful re-entry offenders were Hispanic.

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