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Evaluation of 12 months of  Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) Inmate Population Profiles for year 2017 indicated the DOC’s 14 prisons incarcerated an average of 14,696 inmates per day.

Unpublished data obtained from the DOC indicated that from January 1st to December 1st of 2017 there were an average of 972 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) per day incarcerated in the state’s prison system; criminal aliens on a daily basis were 6.62 percent of the total prison population.

The number of criminal aliens in DOC prisons in 2017 increased from 953 alien inmates on January 1st to 973 alien inmates on December 1st, an increase of 20 alien inmates, a 2.10 percent increase in alien inmates for the reporting period.

Some background information, all the criminal aliens incarcerated in the DOC prisons were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have ICE detainers placed on them.

The following four column table reveals a series of monthly first day or second day snapshots on the number of all DOC inmates, domestic inmates, criminal alien inmates, percentage of inmates who were criminal aliens and averages for all the inmate numbers incarcerated in the state’s prisons in 2017.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation 12 DOC Report ICE inmate lists 2017 and 12 Inmate Population Profiles 2017.

The number and percentage of criminal aliens sent to DOC prisons from 15 Oregon counties increased from January 1, 2017 to December 1, 2017.

Marion, Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties consistently had the majority of criminal aliens incarcerated in DOC prisons.

Using DOC ICE detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total change, increase or decrease, in the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates who were sent to prison from the state’s 36 counties for the time periods of January 1st and December 1st 2017.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmate lists for 01 January 17 and 01 December 17.

Here are the ways Oregon residents were harmed and victimized by criminal aliens incarcerated in DOC prisons in 2017.

The number and percentage of criminal aliens incarcerated in DOC prisons for the crimes of sex abuse, rape and sodomy increased in 2017.

Again using DOC ICE detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total change, increase or decrease, in the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates incarcerated in the state’s prisons by type of crime for the time periods of January 1st and December 1st 2017.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmate lists for 01 January 17 and 01 December 17.

On January 1, 2017 criminal aliens from at least 55 countries were listed as being incarcerated in DOC prisons, while on December 1, 2017 criminal aliens from at least 56 countries were listed as being incarcerated in the state’s prisons.

Throughout year 2017 Mexican nationals were the vast majority of criminal aliens incarcerated in DOC prisons.

Once again using DOC ICE detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total change, increase or decrease, in the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates, identifying them by their self-declared countries of origin, who were incarcerated in the state’s prisons for the time periods of January 1st and December 1st 2017.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmate lists for 01 January 17 and 01 December 17.
¹ Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

Beyond the DOC criminal alien incarceration numbers and incarceration percentages, per county and per crime type, or even country of origin, criminal aliens pose high economic cost to Oregonians in 2017.

An individual prisoner incarcerated in the DOC prison system costs the state approximately ($94.55) per day.

The DOC’s incarceration cost for an average number of 972 criminal alien inmates incarcerated in the state’s prisons for 2017 was approximately ($91,902.60) per day, ($643,318.20) per week, and ($33,544,449.00) per year.

None of the preceding cost estimates for the DOC to incarcerate criminal aliens includes the dollar amount for legal services (indigent defense), language interpreters, court costs, or victim assistance.

Bibliography

Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profiles for 12 months of 2017:

1 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile January 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201701.pdf

2 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile February 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201702.pdf

3 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile March 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201703.pdf

4 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile April 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201704.pdf

5 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile May 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201705.pdf

6 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile June 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201706.pdf

7 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile July 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201707.pdf

8 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile August 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201708.pdf

9 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile September 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201709.pdf

10 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile October 2, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201710.pdf

11 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile November 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201711.pdf

12 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile December 1, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/docs/inmate_profile_201712.pdf

Oregon Department of Corrections unpublished criminal alien data for 12 months of 2017:

1 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated January 1, 2017.

2 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated February 1, 2017.

3 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated March 1, 2017.

4 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated April 1, 2017.

5 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated May 1, 2017.

6 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated June 1, 2017.

7 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated July 1, 2017.

8 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated August 1, 2017.

9 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated September 1, 2017.

10 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated October 2, 2017.

11 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated November 1, 2017.

12 - Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated December 1, 2017.

Oregon Department of Corrections Issue Brief Quick Facts IB-53, January, 2017:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/OC/docs/pdf/IB-53-Quick%20Facts.pdf

David Olen Cross of Salem, Oregon writes on immigration issues and foreign national crime. This report is a service to Oregon state, county and city governmental officials to help them assess the impact of foreign national crime in the state. He can be reached at docfnc@yahoo.com or at http://docfnc.wordpress.com/
 

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Sen. Dick Durbin said Sunday senators are unlikely to reach an immigration deal before government funding expires later this week, and there won’t be another partial government shutdown over the issue.

“There is not likely to be a DACA deal, though we're working every single day on telephone calls and person to person to try to reach this bipartisan agreement,” said Durbin, D-Ill., the second-ranked Democrat, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union." "I don't see a government shutdown coming.”

Parts of the government temporarily shut down last month...

The government shutdown ended when Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, said he received a promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to allow debate and a vote on an immigration bill.

“We're making real progress,” Durbin said. “I want to salute the moderates in both the Republicans' and Democratic caucuses in the Senate. I do see a promise by Sen. McConnell to finally bring this critical issue that effects the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in America, finally bringing it to a full debate in the Senate. That's what we were looking for when there was a shutdown. We have achieved that goal. We're moving forward.”

The White House has said President Trump won’t sign an immigration bill unless it also funds a border wall and changes other parts of the immigration system, such as ending the visa lottery program and limiting family-based immigration. Read more about Dick Durbin: It's unlikely we'll reach a DACA deal, but 'I don't see a government shutdown coming'

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The United States having a significant foreign national population residing within the nations boundaries, be they legally or illegally present in the country, unfortunately includes those who commit crimes.

The extent and impact of foreign national crime on the U.S. citizens and residents of this country is explicitly revealed by a simple search on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates statistics website under the heading of inmate citizenship.

Here are the countries of origin, moreover, the number and percentage of those countries citizens recently incarcerated in the U.S. BOP prison system (The most recent BOP crime numbers available were from December 30, 2017.).

Inmate Citizenship:

- México 23,805 inmates, 13.0 percent;
- Colombia 1,683 inmates, 0.9 percent;
- Dominican Republic 1,443 inmates, 0.8 percent;
- Cuba 1,196 inmates, 0.7 percent;
- Other / unknown countries 9,080 inmates, 4.9 percent;
- United States 145,851 inmates, 79.7 percent;

Total Inmates: 183,058 inmates.

To clarify the meaning of these preceding criminal alien inmate numbers and percentages, I will translate them into words:

Combining December 30th BOP criminal alien inmate numbers, there were 37,207 criminal aliens in the BOP prison system. Alien inmates were 20.3 percent of the federal prison population; more than two in every ten inmates were criminal aliens.

With 23,805 Mexican nationals being incarcerated in the BOP prison system, at 64.0 percent, they were the vast majority of criminal aliens in federal prisons.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks down the federal prison population into 13 types of offenses. One of the top five offenses, the reason inmates are serving time in federal prisons is for immigration crimes. There were 12,246 inmates in the BOP prison system incarcerated for immigration crimes; they were 7.1 percent of the federal prison population.

An urgent wakeup call to all American citizens, eventually the majority of these criminal aliens from México, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Cuba and other countries will be released from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons after completing their prison terms.

The country of Mexico, America’s neighbor to the south, is both historically and literally a land bridge of many frequently unsecured trails, roads, highways and railways used by persons trying and far too often successfully illegally entering our country.

United States citizens should, if they haven’t already, contact their members of the U.S. Congress (two Senators and one Representative) and tell them to support President Donald J. Trump’s commitment to build a wall (fences and technology) along the U.S. border with Mexico to stop the threat of tens of thousands of criminal aliens, once they are released from the federal prison system and deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to their countries of origin, ability to illegally return to this nation and harm its citizens and residents.

David Olen Cross of Salem, Oregon is an independent crime researcher who writes on immigration issues and foreign national crime. He is a weekly guest on the Lars Larson northwest radio show. He can be reached at docfnc@yahoo.com or at http://docfnc.wordpress.com/ Read more about U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons: Criminal Alien Report December 2017

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated that on December 1, 2017 that 97 of the 973 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were incarcerated for drug crimes, 9.97 percent of the criminal alien prison population.

Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total number criminal alien inmates along with the number and percentage of those alien inmates incarcerated on December 1st in the state’s prisons for drug crimes.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 December 17.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates incarcerated on December 1st that were sent to prison from the state’s 36 counties for drug crimes.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 December 17.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the self-declared countries of origin of the 97 criminal alien inmates by number and percentage incarcerated on December 1st in the state’s prisons for drug crimes.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 December 17.

Criminal aliens from seven different countries have committed drug crimes against residents in the State of Oregon.

David Olen Cross of Salem, Oregon writes on immigration issues and foreign national crime. This report is a service to Oregon state, county and city governmental officials to help them assess the impact of foreign national crime in the state. He can be reached at docfnc@yahoo.com or at http://docfnc.wordpress.com/ Read more about Oregon Department of Corrections: Foreign National Drug Crime Report December 2017

Portland Community College officially opened the door Jan. 22 to its DACA Resource Center at the school's Rock Creek campus on the west side. The school says it's the first center of its kind in the state.  ... undocumented students brought to the United States as children, commonly referred to as Dreamers.

"At PCC, we recognize that dreamer students face unique barriers that require additional mental, emotional and financial support," Liliana Luna, Rock Creek's Multicultural Center coordinator and a DACA recipient said in a statement. "The new DREAM Center focuses on the empowerment, support and retention of dreamers and their families." 

...The $50,000 effort is backed by the Meyer Memorial Trust and the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative.

DACA recipients with work permits face a March 5 deadline for renewal... Read more about PCC opens center for 'Dreamers,' other undocumented students at Rock Creek Campus

The Department of Justice today sent the attached letters to 23 jurisdictions, demanding the production of documents that could show whether each jurisdiction is unlawfully restricting information sharing by its law enforcement officers with federal immigration authorities.

All 23 of these jurisdictions were previously contacted by the Justice Department, when the Department raised concerns about laws, policies, or practices that may violate 8 U.S.C. 1373, a federal statute that promotes information sharing related to immigration enforcement and with which compliance is a condition of FY2016 and FY2017 Byrne JAG awards.

The letters also state that recipient jurisdictions that fail to respond, fail to respond completely, or fail to respond in a timely manner will be subject to a Department of Justice subpoena.

“I continue to urge all jurisdictions under review to reconsider policies that place the safety of their communities and their residents at risk,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “Protecting criminal aliens from federal immigration authorities defies common sense and undermines the rule of law. We have seen too many examples of the threat to public safety represented by jurisdictions that actively thwart the federal government’s immigration enforcement—enough is enough.”

Failure to comply with section 1373 could result in the Justice Department seeking the return of FY2016 grants, requiring additional conditions for receipt of any FY2017 Byrne JAG funding, and/or jurisdictions being deemed ineligible to receive FY2017 Byrne JAG funding.

The following jurisdictions received the document request today:

• Chicago, Illinois;
• Cook County, Illinois;
• New York City, New York;
• State of California;
• Albany, New York;
• Berkeley, California;
• Bernalillo County, New Mexico;
• Burlington, Vermont;
• City and County of Denver, Colorado;
• Fremont, California;
• Jackson, Mississippi;
• King County, Washington;
• Lawrence, Massachusetts;
• City of Los Angeles, California;
• Louisville Metro, Kentucky;
• Monterey County, California;
• Sacramento County, California;
• City and County of San Francisco, California;
• Sonoma County, California;
• Watsonville, California;
• West Palm Beach, Florida;
• State of Illinois; and
• State of Oregon.