What we do know from one of the Judiciary Committee hearings is somewhere between 6 and 8 percent of the people coming across our southern border have a criminal history. There are valid points to the questions that have been raised by the Senator from Wisconsin. who I have the utmost respect for. but I think this is a question about what could happen versus what is getting ready to happen. What is getting ready to happen is instead of 28 percent of our Federal prisons today being filled with illegal aliens. it is going to become 45 and 50 percent. because they are going to stay here. We are going to give them 27 months. They are going to use stays to stay here. and what we are trying to do is have a balance.
Identified stereotypes
Associating undocumented immigrants with criminality and increasing prison populations.