{"id":1493695,"date":"2024-10-03T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1493695"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T18:15:00","slug":"lott-about-that-new-data-on-migrant-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/lott-about-that-new-data-on-migrant-crime\/1493695\/","title":{"rendered":"Lott: About That New Data On Migrant Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Lott: About That New Data On Migrant Crime<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/realclearwire.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/01\/the_new_data_on_migrant_crime_151712.html\">Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) checks the background of illegal aliens they have in custody. But, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shellenberger\/status\/1839741316068192551\/photo\/1\">administration\u2019s letter<\/a> to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) shows that a<strong>s of July 21, 2024, ICE let <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shellenberger\/status\/1839741316068192551\/photo\/1\">435,719 convicted criminals and 226,847 people with pending criminal charges<\/a> in their home countries into the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/612315.jpg?itok=CPwB5svo\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of those cleared by ICE, 13,099 have convictions for homicide, and another 1,845 were facing criminal charges.<\/strong> Some 9,461 have convictions for sex offenses (not including assault or commercialized sex), and 2,659 face pending charges. The convictions include other crimes such as assault (62,231), robbery (10,031), sexual assault (15,811), weapons offenses (13,423), and dangerous drugs (56,533).<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-mum-amid-outrage-data-showing-many-illegal-immigrant-criminals-free-us\">7.4 million<\/a> noncitizens are in the \u201cnational docket data,\u201d so 662,776 is 9% of the total, and if one extrapolates the numbers to the homicide rate in this country, it strongly indicates that the government is letting migrants into this country who commit murder at a rate 50% higher than the rest of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And these numbers clearly <em>underestimate<\/em> the crime rate of these noncitizens. <\/strong>The noncitizens in the \u201cnational docket data\u201d turned themselves in to border agents for processing or were caught. Those who don\u2019t turn themselves in are obviously far more likely to have something to hide from those doing the processing, so-called \u201cgotaways,\u201d who are observed illegally entering the U.S. but not caught or turned back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These figures<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3099992\"> coincide<\/a> with other data from the Arizona prison system and show illegal aliens commit crime at much higher rates than Americans or legal immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the Remain-in-Mexico policy, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did background checks on immigrants\u2019 cases, including contacting the country that the immigrant is from before they are approved to come to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICE agents cannot access the same databases to check on the immigrants, and they didn\u2019t contact the immigrant\u2019s home country<\/strong>. Plus, the massive inflow of immigrants has overwhelmed the system. The Deputy Director for ICE blames the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shellenberger\/status\/1839741316068192551\/photo\/1\">enormous workload<\/a>\u201d \u00a0agents face, so they haven\u2019t been able to do even the limited background checks they are doing. <strong>There are so many coming in that the government can\u2019t house these immigrants until their backgrounds are properly checked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ICE processed these criminals as they entered the country, but it didn\u2019t identify them as criminals, so it released them into the country. Now, they are just walking around freely in the United States, and no one knows where they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It took over six months for the Biden administration to finally respond to a congressional request for these numbers. The deputy director for ICE \u201capologized\u201d for the delay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As bad as these numbers are, the reality may be even worse. The Biden-Harris administration is cooking the books to make the border crisis not look as bad as it is. For example, in mid-September, retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/09\/21\/retired-border-chief-ordered-to-not-report-border-crossers-with-ties-to-terrorism\/\">testified<\/a> how the Biden-Harris administration ordered him not to publicize the arrests of illegal border crossers identified as having ties to terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats quickly pointed out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/investigations\/13000-immigrants-convicted-homicide-living-freely-us-ice-data-rcna173125\">some of these criminals came in before the Biden administration<\/a>. <strong>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shellenberger\/status\/1839741316068192551\/photo\/1\">administration\u2019s letter<\/a> to Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, didn\u2019t provide a breakdown of how many came through under Biden-Harris. <\/strong>The administration policy, with its limited background checks and overwhelmed agents, has a much higher error rate compared to Trump\u2019s Remain-in-Mexico approach. Background checks are ineffective if officials don\u2019t even contact the immigrant\u2019s home country.<\/p>\n<p>Even if illegal immigrants weren\u2019t committing crimes at higher rates than the general population,<strong> the American people have a right to expect those entering this country to be screened in order to prevent more murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and thieves from entering the country.<\/strong> Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the authority to call for expedited extradition for criminal illegal aliens in the U.S., but they have only moved to make extradition more difficult.<\/p>\n<p><em>John R. Lott Jr. is a contributor to RealClearInvestigations, focusing on voting and gun rights. His articles have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune. Lott is an economist who has held research and\/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 10\/03\/2024 &#8211; 10:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/lott-about-new-data-migrant-crime\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/lott-about-new-data-migrant-crime<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lott: About That New Data On Migrant Crime Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations, The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1493696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6gzR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/612315-niZR3y.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}