Departments of Justice as well as Homeland Security Release Data on Incarcerated Aliens

WASHINGTON – President Trump’s Executive Order on Public Safety inwards the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Justice together with Department of Homeland Security to collect relevant information together with furnish quarterly reports on information collection efforts. The information inwards this loose shows a meaning prison theatre population of incarcerated aliens.

Below is a summary of information collected nether Section sixteen of the Order , which directs “the Secretary [of Homeland Security] together with the Attorney General . . . to collect relevant information together with furnish quarterly reports” regarding the next subjects: (a) the immigration condition of all aliens incarcerated nether the supervision of the Bureau of Prisons; (b) the immigration condition of all aliens incarcerated equally federal pretrial detainees; together with (c) the immigration condition of all convicted aliens inwards nation prisons together with local detention centers throughout the United States.

Information Regarding Immigration Status of Aliens Incarcerated Under the Supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has an operational procedure for maintaining information regarding foreign-born inmates inwards its custody. On a daily reason , BOP supplies this information to U.S. Immigration together with Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE , inwards plow , analyzes that information to lift one's heed the immigration condition of each inmate together with provides that information dorsum to BOP.

As a component subdivision of satisfying the Justice Department’s instant quarterly study of this information , below is information regarding aliens currently incarcerated nether the supervision of BOP.^[1] This information is electrical flow equally of June 24:

Out of the 187 ,855 inmates inwards BOP custody , 42 ,034 are foreign-born.  The breakdown of the 42 ,034 aliens is equally follows:   

• 19 ,749 (46.9%) are aliens who bring received lastly orders of removal;
• 21 ,121 (50.2%) are aliens who are nether ICE investigation for possible removal;
• 1 ,157 (2.8%) are aliens whose cases are pending adjudication earlier an Immigration Judge inwards the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR); and
• Seven (.0002%) are aliens who bring been granted relief.

Information Regarding the Immigration Status of Aliens Incarcerated equally Federal Pretrial Detainees

The U.S. Marshal Service (USMS) , the Department of Justice’s gene charged amongst the housing together with help of federal pretrial detainees , of late instituted a plan to capture information regarding the immigration condition of these detainees. 

Based upon records electrical flow equally June fourteen , USMS identified 12 ,005 “self-reporting” foreign-born prisoners (aliens) out of fifty ,135 arrested together with detained at USMS facilities. Further details follow for the fifty ,135 detained aliens:

• 9 ,857 (82.1%) are aliens who bring received lastly orders of removal;
• 2 ,047 (17.1%) are aliens whose cases are however pending adjudication earlier an Immigration Judge inwards the EOIR; and
• 101 (.8%) are aliens however pending adjudication (ICE has charged these aliens equally removal cases , exactly a lastly disposition has non yet been reached.)

Immigration Status of All Convicted Aliens Incarcerated inwards State Prisons together with Local Detention Centers throughout the United States

The Department continues to progress towards establishing information collection of the immigration condition of convicted aliens incarcerated inwards nation prisons together with local detention centers through its Office of Justice Programs (OJP) , Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).

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