Greater than 451,000 felony noncitizens have been arrested and booked into native Texas jails over the previous 14 years, in accordance with an updated report revealed by the Texas Division of Public Security.
Amongst them are 322,000 who’re confirmed to be within the U.S. illegally, in accordance with obtainable U.S. Division of Homeland Safety knowledge.
The information covers June 1, 2011, via Feb. 28, 2025, and represents DPS and native regulation enforcement companies that take part in DHS’ Safe Communities program. This system permits DHS to work with state and native regulation enforcement to take custody of unlawful international nationals who pose a hazard to public security as a substitute for them being launched into native communities.
The information solely pertains to Texas state offenses. It excludes felony information from different states, federal felony expenses and knowledge pertaining to international nationals who’re legally within the nation who dedicated a state crime.
Among the many 322,000 confirmed unlawful international nationals, regulation enforcement officers charged them with greater than 564,000 mixed felony offenses, in accordance with the information. They embrace arrests for 1,043 murder expenses; 73,025 assault expenses; 10,096 housebreaking expenses; 65,896 drug expenses; 1,371 kidnapping expenses; 28,601 theft expenses; 44,080 obstructing police expenses; 3,214 theft expenses; 7,177 sexual assault expenses; 8,189 sexual offense expenses; and seven,024 weapon expenses.
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The costs resulted in 208,000 convictions, together with 533 for murder; 26,670 for assault; 5,147 for housebreaking; 27,093 for medicine; 391 for kidnapping; 10,740 for theft; 17,084 for obstructing police; 1,834 for theft; 3,508 for sexual assault; 3,733 for sexual offense; and a pair of,263 for weapons.
The information pertains to international nationals who’re within the U.S. illegally; not all arrested are within the DHS database on the time of their arrest, leading to an incapacity to confirm their citizenship. A person’s lawful standing is decided by matching fingerprints to a DHS database. If the arrestee’s fingerprints aren’t but within the DHS database on the time of their Texas arrest, DHS isn’t capable of biometrically confirm their standing, DPS explains.
International nationals who illegally enter the U.S. and keep away from detection, known as gotaways, and are later arrested by native or state regulation enforcement for a state offense is probably not within the DHS database. Those that aren’t within the database aren’t included within the knowledge, DPS explains.
Along with the Safe Communities program, DHS adjudicates the immigration standing of international nationals incarcerated within the Texas jail system. From 2011 via Feb. 28, 2025, the Texas Division of Felony Justice (TDCJ) supplied DPS with data on greater than 33,000 unlawful international nationals recognized by DHS whereas incarcerated. Amongst them, 11,001 weren’t recognized via the Safe Communities program on the time of their arrest. “DPS doesn’t know the present incarceration standing of the people recognized whereas they have been incarcerated nor when their noncitizen standing was initially decided,” the report explains.
Of the 11,001 TDCJ recognized, they have been incarcerated for a mixed greater than 11,016 felony offenses, together with expenses for murder (151); assault (1,437); housebreaking (600); medicine (1,933); kidnapping (65); theft (544); obstructing police (1,041); theft (423); sexual assault (946); sexual offenses (440); and weapons (278).
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In line with DPS felony historical past, the felony expenses resulted in additional than 6,000 convictions together with for murder (117); assault (836); housebreaking (380); medicine (1,062); kidnapping (35); theft (290); obstructing police (457); theft (313); sexual assault (693); sexual offense (316); and weapons (113).
The totals are up from greater than 443,000 felony noncitizens arrested, together with 314,000 confirmed illegally within the nation as of Sept. 30, 2024, The Middle Sq. reported.
Amongst these are the practically 50,000 arrests reported by native regulation enforcement in 2023, The Middle Sq. reported.
The arrest and expenses knowledge don’t “essentially align with the dimensions of the inhabitants of unlawful noncitizens recognized whereas in jail,” the report explains. “A extra correct evaluation will be seen when inspecting this inhabitants’s complete Texas felony historical past and never only for offenses dedicated throughout this time interval.”
The experiences have been up to date utilizing knowledge as of March 1, 2025.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
