Immigration Impact

December 22, 2011

New Numbers from U.S. Sentencing Commission Reveal Dysfunction of U.S. Immigration System

Filed under: Journal Articles

…for Cornerstone

The broken U.S. immigration system is flooding federal courts with low-level cases involving non-violent defendants, and inundating federal prisons with individuals whose only crime was to enter or remain in the country without permission. Thanks to this ever-widening immigration dragnet, a disproportionate share of the Latinos and non-U.S. citizens who wind up in federal courts and prisons are there solely because of immigration violations. In other words, the federal government is wasting its limited law-enforcement and criminal-justice resources on immigrants who do not pose a threat to public safety or national security…

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