Reply #3: It seems like a huge percentage [View All]

[Yo_Mama]

In fact, I looked at the OP and said to myself "There's got to be something wrong with these numbers". But then I went and read the article, and this appeared:

The commission's statistics also reveal that sentences for felony immigration crimes — which include illegal crossing and other crimes such as alien smuggling — were responsible for most of the increase in the number of Hispanics sent to prison over the last decade.

So then I searched for "illegal crossing felony", and found this article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0330/At-the-Mexico-border-a-harder-line-on-illegal-immigrants

So most of it is from immigration offenses. I'm not sure what to think. Apparently if they keep nabbing you crossing the border now they put you in a jail for a while on a felony charge.