Thursday, October 24, 2024

Over 443,000 criminal noncitizens booked in Texas jails

Charged with 775,000 criminal offenses, 316,000 convictions

Posted by lfthndthrds at 07:43 AM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

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Seems like we'd want to deport those ones first when Trump gets back in office.

#1 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-10-24 08:50 AM

Over 443,000 criminal noncitizens booked in Texas jails

Have any of them been convicted of 34 felonies? GOP might have room for them at the top of the ticket in the next presidential election.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-24 09:01 AM

Seems like we'd want to deport those ones first when Trump gets back in office.

#1 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Would LOVE to.

But you voted for people who won't let that happen.

Unfortunately you idiots said we have to treat ALL undocumented the same and voted against getting more immigration judges.

So they wills it here for years waiting immigration hearings. Many will be out of jail by the time that happens.

Good job, idiots.

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-10-24 11:39 AM

This data is odd and designed to confuse.

The sheer number of arrests versus the low number of convictions is striking.

The numbers lead you to believe in a massive crime wave by illegal citizens and the data tries to hide details.

443,000 non-citizens booked into Texas jails: That includes illegal AND legal, Only 314,000 were illegal. Did they become illegal while being in prison because their VISAs lapsed? Or they were here too long on passport because they were in jail? Green card revoked while in jails? Who knows. Data won't say. You were here on vacation and got arrested for DUI? You're an illegal now!

How many were arrested AT THE BORDER crossing illegally with some other crime? No idea. Data won't say.

Only 200,000 convictions: Wait, so at MOST less than 2/3s were convicted of a crime. But more so, since many convictions include MULTIPLE convictions for different crimes, that number is likely down to 100,000 people or less being convicted.

And it seems a large number were arrested for "All Other Offenses"...like what? Driving without a valid license? Drunk in public?

And this is over a 14 year period and they won't even give us the NUMBER of people convicted or the number that were illegal when they committed their crimes.

#4 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-10-24 11:55 AM

I'f you're ever curious what it would be like to live in a Police State you don't need to fly to N Korea, just drive through Texas. Highway Patrol every 1.7 miles, people pulled over for traffic violations at gunpoint, Border Patrol checkpoints. Countless road signs, OBEY this, LAW that. "Prison Area" almost as often as a McDonalds on a Longhorn Ave.
The Lone Star State, that's not just the motto it's their Yelp rating.

#5 | Posted by BluSky at 2024-10-24 03:33 PM

Any non citizen commiting any crime should be gone forever and never again allowed here for any reason.

#6 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-24 04:03 PM

Any non citizen commiting any crime should be gone forever and never again allowed here for any reason.
#6 | Posted by Robson

What should we do with Trump? The man convicted of 34 felonies? Other than elect him MAGAt presidente for life, I mean.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-24 05:50 PM

Any non citizen commiting any crime should be gone forever and never again allowed here for any reason.
#6 | Posted by Robson

The question becomes why didn't Trump deport the criminals who were there when he was in office:

The data, covering roughly 13 years from June 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2024, represents "the minimum number of crimes associated with criminal illegal noncitizens" charged with committing state offenses.

This is the same tactic he is employing when it comes to operations for transgender prisoners. He accuse the Biden/Harris administration of doing what his administration also did.

#8 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-24 05:56 PM

The question becomes why didn't Trump deport the criminals who were there when he was in office.
- gal

It would have been against the law.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-24 06:13 PM


This is the same tactic he is employing when it comes to operations for transgender prisoners. He accuse the Biden/Harris administration of doing what his administration also did.
#8 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

Doesn't mean either Harris or Trump couldn't change their mind and realize a bad policy, as Harris has repeatedly done and said.

It might even be easier now to get the policy changed given the social awareness of it now. Before there was a lot of religion around "transgenderism", we now have more data/

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-24 06:16 PM

The sheer number of arrests versus the low number of convictions is striking.

Well in today's age, convicting someone of a crime is unheard of, almost literally.

You could say these arrests were racist, but how would they know they were illegal immigrants?

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-24 06:18 PM

Unfortunately you idiots said we have to treat ALL undocumented the same and voted against getting more immigration judges.

The Biden/Harris route was to let everyone one in, then process/filter out. IOW blaming now enough "process".

This clearly isn't working. They aren't showing up to be filtered out.

There isn't a problem with immigration judges, as many immigrants aren't showing up for their hearings.
cis.org

So the US is seeing a spike, a rather large spike since Biden took office, of no shows.

So what are the judges doing on those days with all the "no shows"? Nothing, because nothing is scheduled.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-24 06:24 PM

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#13 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-24 06:37 PM

This data is odd and designed to confuse.

#4 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-10-24 11:55 AM | Reply | Flag:

Have you listened to the Harris town hall hosted by CNN yet? That's literally the definition of confusion.

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-25 08:05 AM

I'f you're ever curious what it would be like to live in a Police State you don't need to fly to N Korea, just drive through Texas. Highway Patrol every 1.7 miles, people pulled over for traffic violations at gunpoint, Border Patrol checkpoints. Countless road signs, OBEY this, LAW that. "Prison Area" almost as often as a McDonalds on a Longhorn Ave.
The Lone Star State, that's not just the motto it's their Yelp rating.

#5 | Posted by BluSky at 2024-10-24 03:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm calling BS. I understand it gets pretty thick the closer to the border you are but the entire state isn't like that. Would you just have the DPS sit back and let unfettered access to the state from the South? I live in Texas and haven't experienced anything like what you claim is happening.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-25 08:08 AM

What should we do with Trump? The man convicted of 34 felonies?

#7 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-24 05:50 PM | Reply | Flag

Why not just sentence him and lock him up? What's the hold up? I wont hold my breath and wait for a honest answer.

This administration played with fire and now that it's time to pay up, crickets.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-25 08:13 AM

Ah. Texas.
"Two aggressive Dallas cops. One confidential informant. Hundreds of pounds of cocaine. Fifty-three drug traffickers busted. Sound too good to be true? It was."
Spoiler - it turns out it was gypsum dust. It was all manufactured by Texas police. All targeting a section of town where Hispanics lived. I lived there when this happened. I really came to appreciate my White Privilege while I lived in Texas.

Back on the subject, FTA:

DPS also notes that "the criminal activity for individuals identified as illegal while in prison is underrepresented for this time period

Who is this "Texas" website? How much can I trust what they are saying given they are obviously skewing this story? So they have nothing to do with Texas, aren't even a Texas based site. This is Franklin "News" Foundation - a "Right-Center biased based on editorial positions that favor the Libertarian right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to not always aligning with the consensus of science and a lack of transparency."

I take this "reporting" as more right-wing cultural heroin. As such I'm not going to waste any more time with what's presented.

#17 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-25 10:09 AM

Why not just sentence him and lock him up? What's the hold up?

His lawyers keep filing for delays and his judge friends keep approving them?

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-10-25 11:10 AM

His lawyers keep filing for delays and his judge friends keep approving them?

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-10-25 11:10 AM | Reply | Flag:

Americans only need answer. Go take care of the fruit loop running roughshod on your country.

#19 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-25 02:17 PM

Answer hit a nerve, I see?

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-10-25 02:23 PM

He's one throbbing nerve that believes only tRump can sooth him. Like all the MAGAts.
It's like America had a hemorrhoid problem thats spread from its ass to half its body.

#21 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-25 04:48 PM

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