And the answer to that is. if you want to deport them. theyre not coming forward. If its your goal to deport felons and triple violators of serious misdemeanors so that you can send them back to their home country. they are not going to come forward. Theyre going to stay in the shadows. Some of the estimates say that 10 percent of the illegal population are criminals in one fashion or another beyond just violating immigration law. I dont know what that number is. I know that 28 percent of the populations within our Federal and State penitentiaries are criminal aliens.
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Generalization that 10% of the illegal population are criminals.