Thread: Most foreign prisoners in US are Mexicans - report

26 April 2011 Last updated at 14:27 ET

Most foreign prisoners in US are Mexicans - report

By Valeria Perasso
BBC Mundo, Los Angeles

Foreign prisoners cost US taxpayers up to $1.6 BILLION per year, the report found

Almost seven in every 10 foreign prisoners in US jails are Mexicans, a US government report has revealed.

A report by the US Government Accountability Office also states that between 2005 and 2010, there was a 7% increase in the number of foreign inmates in federal prisons.

Local prisons, have seen a 35% increase in the number of jailed foreigners.

The GAO reports that 68% of the 55,000 foreigners in US prisons are Mexican nationals.

In total, foreigners make up more than 25% of the US prison population.

Some fear that the new report will put pressure on the government to adopt stricter anti-immigration laws.

Criminal records

Most of the prisoners were convicted for immigration offences (65%), followed by drug-related crimes and drug trafficking.

The GAO estimates that foreign prisoners cost US taxpayers up to $1.6bn (£972m) per year.


“The federal government is not doing its job of deporting these criminals â€

Some NGOs who campaign for the rights of immigrants have warned that the number of illegal migrants arrested has risen sharply - 85% more in 2010 than in 2005.

"Some are detained simply because of [a] traffic misdemeanour," Jennifer Allen, of the NGO Borderaction, told the BBC.

"In some states, such as Arizona, a traffic misdemeanour may result in deportation."

So? I don't care HOW they find them, we want them arrested, processed and deported, if they are here illegally. They don't belong here and are not welcome. They're supposed to be deported.

The fact that az deports them for infractions as small as a triffic ticket showes that their smart enough to get these illegals out of their state fast and not pay to incarcerate them!

If the FEDERAL government had secured the border after the Reagan amnesty in 1986, like they said they would,
we wouldn't have to deal with these criminals now.

This article would have shocked me if most illegal immigrants were chinesse!

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just honest hard working that are here to do the jobs Americans wont do