On August 22, 2019, the Department of Justice’s – Bureau of Statistics released a report entitled Immigration, Citizenship, and the Federal Justice System, 1998-2018. The information covers arrests and prosecutions of US. citizens vs non-U.S. citizens. We will only report on their findings and use the summary for #quikTake tweets, as describe near the bottom of this blog.
This blog entry is basically a replication of the summary report (released in PDF).
If you follow the link in the SOURCES section, you can get this information which contains – the press release, summary, full report, and data used.
The source of much of the information is: based on data from the U.S. Marshals Service, Justice Detainee Information System, fiscal year 2018. Other sources of information are described in the footnotes to all the charts in the full report.
Page 16 of the full report has specific information with regards to DHS, USBP, ICE and CBP. The following excerpt is a flavor of what that page says.
Apprehensions
CBP conducts apprehensions of aliens for suspected immigration violations. Apprehensions entail the physical control or temporary detention of persons who are not lawfully in the U.S. This may or may not result in an arrest. (…)
Administrative arrest
ICE carries out administrative arrests. These include any arrest of an alien for a civil violation of U.S. immigration laws (…)
Federal criminal arrest
Both CBP and ICE make federal criminal arrests for criminal violations of U.S. immigration laws. CBP does not publish its number of federal criminal arrests; however, those numbers, which BJS obtained through its Federal Justice Statistics Program, are published in this report. Making a federal criminal arrest requires establishing probable cause; a federal criminal arrest is subsequently adjudicated by a U.S. magistrate or a federal judge in U.S. district court, instead of an immigration court.
The one (1) page ‘summary report’ is numbered NCJ 253116 / dated August 2019. This ‘summary report’ is used to create about a dozen tweets for the #quikTake for the new series qt-doj-stats – containing the hashtag #NCJ253116.
SOURCES
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Federal Justice System, 1998-2018
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6666
NCJ 253116 / August 2019
The Border Observer 