The total number of immigrant non-citizens convicted of murder in the US is probably “tens of thousands”, far more than the 13,400 listed on the national docket of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), given that the number of border-hoppers in their countries of origin is No criminal records. A data expert tells Fox News Digital that there has been a data breach.
Explosive data released last week through ICE’s national docket shows that 277 non-citizens are currently being detained by ICE, while 13,099 non-citizens are being held in non-custodial sentences with murder convictions. Is placed. ICE’s non-custodial docket includes noncitizens who have final orders of removal or who are undergoing removal proceedings but are not in ICE custody.
Of the 13,099 convicted murderers not detained by ICE, it is unclear how many are imprisoned by federal, state or local law enforcement, or roaming the streets. There are an additional 1,845 people with non-custodial murder charges.
In total, 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories are under ICE’s national purview, dating back decades.
Texas National Guard soldiers keep watch over more than 1,000 immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on December 18, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Data underline serious threat illegal immigration And not thoroughly vetting immigrants is a danger to law-abiding people living in the United States. These figures caused outrage among border security advocates.
Shawn Kennedy, an expert in law enforcement and crime data analysis, said the number of noncitizens in the U.S. who have murder convictions — as well as convictions for other crimes such as assault and rape — comes into ICE custody. And the number of non-citizens is much higher at 13,376. detained dockets because those convictions only apply to crimes committed in the US Not murders committed in migrants’ home countries.
,“We don’t know how many people have come to the United States over the last few decades, over the last few years, who have criminal convictions or have committed crimes in foreign countries,” Kennedy said. Very few of the migrants crossing the border who have criminal records will be properly screened because criminal records in their home countries are inadequate, not consistent, or not shared directly with the United States. Are. And we’ve seen it again and again.”
Kennedy cited a case Peruvian gang leaderGianfranco Torres-Navarro, who was wanted for nearly two dozen murders in his home country and entered the U.S. illegally at the Texas-Mexico border on May 16, is an example of how the vetting process can deter violent criminals from entering the U.S. giving entry into
Fox News learned that he was arrested by the US Border Patrol near Roma, Texas, before being released into the US with a notice to appear for immigration proceedings. It took nearly two months for federal authorities to learn about Torres-Navarro Was wanted in Peru for 23 murdersWhich also includes the murder of a retired police officer.
“He was a drug gang leader and we didn’t know it because Peru didn’t tell us, or he wasn’t listed in the database that we had access to because our databases are very limited,” Kennedy said.
Peruvian gang leader Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, wanted for 23 murders, was arrested by ICE and released at the border. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Kennedy said the federal database contains a list of people whose crimes were mostly committed in the United States and who are considered a security threat, but there are many more people who are security threats who have not been identified. may not be collected, or their biometric data – such as fingerprints – is not being collected.
“So if you’re living in the mountains of Afghanistan and go under a pseudonym, we have no idea (that) when you scan your fingerprints, you’re the same person,” Kennedy said. data. “The Taliban government is not sharing it. The Venezuelans are not telling us who their gangsters or goons are. The Chinese are not telling us who their spies are, let alone Russians or Tajiks or anyone else Give.”
Kennedy said the mix includes about 2 million so-called “getaways” who crossed the border in the past three years but never encountered Border Patrol.
“We don’t know who they are,” he said.
Kennedy said that when Border Patrol encounters migrants at the border, the agency asks for basic information such as name, place of birth and also collects biometric information and submits it to the National Crime Information Center, a database of all state and local crime. Registers with the national database. Information It also processes data through the National Screening Center list, which coordinates with various federal agencies such as TSA and coordinates with other countries.
“But that data is also very limited, because it’s completely voluntary as to what countries submit… And what’s worse is that very few countries participate in agreements where they disclose information about their criminal context. Will share information fully and freely,” Kennedy said.
“So we get very little information about foreigners crossing the border, and very little of it can be confirmed (and) many of the people crossing the border have no serious government documents and sometimes none at all Neither are there.”
Illegal immigrant Victor Martinez Hernandez is accused of brutally raping and murdering Rachel Morin, a mother of five, in Maryland on August 5, 2023. (Tulsa Police Department/Facebook)
ICE data from last week shows that of those non-detained, 62,231 were convicted of assault, 14,301 were convicted of theft, 56,533 were convicted of drug possession and 13,099 was convicted. convicted of murderAn additional 2,521 have been convicted of kidnapping and 15,811 have been convicted of sexual assault.
It is not known nationally how many non-citizens entered the US illegally or legally. For example, a permanent resident green card holder who is convicted of a crime is subject to deportation if convicted and will therefore be in the national dock.
Kennedy, who is executive director of the Coalition for Law Order and Safety, a nonprofit research group that studies and advocates for effective public safety policies, said the majority of the approximately 13,400 noncitizens convicted of murder committed those murders. Had executed. America, and that even if they have served their time, they are not necessarily deported because their home countries may refuse to take them back.
This is because in the 2001 case Zadvydas v. Davis, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to indefinitely detain people who otherwise could be deported if they could not be deported.
Kennedy said there is no exact figure for the actual murder crime conviction rate of non-citizens, but an estimate can be made by estimating the numbers. a texas Investigating non-citizen crimes and then enforcing them at a national rate.
That investigation, by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), found that illegal immigrants have been accused of more than 1,100 murders, more than 3,500 sexual assaults and 3,700 other sexual crimes since June 2011.
This meant that Texas’ overall murder conviction rate over that period was 2.88 per 100,000 residents, while the illegal immigrant rate was 3.25 per 100,000 residents, or 13% higher. In contrast, legal immigrants were convicted of murder at significantly lower rates than illegal immigrants and the overall Texas population.
“So if we were to extrapolate this across the United States, there would be thousands of people in addition to these 13,000 people who have been murdered here,” Kennedy said.
Jocelyn Nungare, 12, was strangled to death in Houston Bay. Venezuelan immigrants Franklin Pena, 26, and Johan Martínez-Rangel, 22, were convicted last month on capital murder charges in connection with Nungare’s killing. (Courtesy of Fox Houston Nungare Family)
“There are a large number of people in the United States who are committing crimes who are here illegally that we know about. And there are a large number of people who are committing crimes in the United States that we don’t know about.” You know. They could be migrating or slipping through the cracks in some other way and that population is a wild card for American law enforcement because we can’t deport them.”
“When you’re importing thousands of young El Salvadorian men, or Venezuelan men, who for decades were the murder capital of the world, it’s likely that many of them have committed murder or been accomplices in murder because they were murdered. The rate was 20 times the American rate, Kennedy said.
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The Texas DPS investigation found that more than 20% of its jailed illegal immigrant killers were unknown to DHS, Kennedy said, adding that this could be replicated in other states — which would send the figures even higher again. .
“These are all preventable crimes. If these people had not come here, they would not have committed these crimes,” Kennedy said. “So when we know someone has a criminal history, we have an obligation to protect our citizens first, not to import from the world some of whom are criminals and criminals and violent and terrorists and others who are a threat to American public safety. There are dangers.”
