This story is Part One of two that examines the current state of criminal justice in the United States. The massive amounts of criminality witnessed by Americans over the past 8-10 years — especially as it pertains to the prosecution of alleged criminals — is frightening for several reasons.
We typically get our crime statistics annually from the FBI. However, for the past years, the FBI’s criminal stats have NOT been accurate. Two years ago, the FBI released the annual crime stats showing a significant drop in crime across the board. However, it was soon discovered that a new software the FBI has switched to had NOT been loaded on numerous police systems across the network. Therefore, the crime stats were grossly underrated.
Needless to say, “something ain’t right!
We will dig into the details together. In today’s Part One, we examine the criminal statistics we have from the one source we trust: the Texas Department of Public Safety. And these are only for Illegal alien crime. Part Two (coming Wednesday, October 8) will have the additional numbers. Hopefully, we can get factual information that makes sense.
Dan
I dare not believe I’m the only American who watches the criminality exploding across the U.S. It’s unconscionable to most that, since the normalization of illegal aliens getting an open door en masse at our Southern border, millions of illegal aliens have accepted the invitation from former President Joe Biden to come to the U.S., despite multiple laws broken to do so.
To make it worse, Biden et al turned on the spigot of benefits for these illegals without any reservation at all and have spent hundreds of billions of dollars housing illegal aliens, feeding and clothing them, giving them healthcare and education for their children at no charge. Worst of all, very quietly, Democrats illegally gave illegals free healthcare, though doing so was violating a large number of laws.
Of course, when Democrat leaders are confronted with this evidence, they shrug it off, justifying it by the classic, “We’re supporting these people who come here to make a better life for their families. After all, the U.S. is the greatest and most giving nation on Earth. We’re simply serving others who are not as well-off as Americans are.”
However, suborning illegal alien “immigration” (which it’s not) is far from the totality of the massive mountain of criminality across the board in our nation and the lack of commitment made by every state and federal political office holder to protect their constituents AND the country. Many of those lawmakers — police at the federal, state, and local levels — have decided that enforcement of almost every law needs to be rethought and simplified in the name of being “fair” and “humane.”
But, there’s much more going on.
The Vast Majority Of Criminal Cases End In Plea Bargains
In any given year, 98% of criminal cases in the federal courts end with a plea bargain. This practice prizes efficiency over fairness and innocence, according to a new report from the American Bar Association.
A task force that includes prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys, and academics cited “substantial evidence” that innocent people are coerced into guilty pleas because of the power prosecutors hold over them, including the prospect of decades-long mandatory minimum sentences.
“Trials have become rare legal artifacts in most U.S. jurisdictions, and even nonexistent in others,” the ABA Plea Bargain Task Force wrote in a report.
Aside from the paltry number of trials in the federal system, states including Pennsylvania, Texas, and New York have trial rates of less than 3%. In Santa Cruz County, Ariz., there were no trials from 2010 to 2012, the report said.
The prevalence of plea bargaining has increased significantly over the last several decades as a means to save money and time, and to promote greater certainty in outcomes. But the practice comes with “a very high cost,” said Lucian Dervan, a professor at Belmont University College of Law in Nashville.
Pleas can allow police and government misconduct to go unchecked, because mistakes and misbehavior often only emerge after defense attorneys gain access to witness interviews and other materials, with which they can test the strength of a government case before trial.
The deals also exacerbate racial inequality, with Black defendants more often subject to prosecutors’ stacking of multiple charges in drug and gun cases. Altogether, defendants face stiffer punishments for going to trial — known as a trial penalty — that can add seven to nine years or more to their sentence.
However, most striking in the report is research that cites innocent defendants who agree to plead guilty falsely, sometimes on the advice of their own lawyers. An Innocence Project database of exonerations includes dozens of people who falsely pleaded guilty.
“This isn’t just having an effect on those individuals,” said Dervan, who co-chaired the task force. “It’s having an effect on the entire community and the safety of the entire community.
What About “Processing” Of Millions Of Illegal Aliens For Illegal Entry To The U.S. And Subsequent Crime?
(This information comes from a report posted September 27, 2024, during the Biden Administration.)
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a Texas border lawmaker this week that the agency has released 435,000 undocumented migrants with criminal convictions to cities around the United States.
ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner sent a letter on Wednesday to U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, stating that as of July 21, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on the agency’s non-detained docket (NDD), meaning they are not detained while awaiting immigration proceedings.
“Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges,” Lechleitner wrote.
“The data released by ICE is beyond disturbing, and it should be a wake-up call for the Biden-Harris administration and cities across the country that hide behind sanctuary policies,” Gonzales said Friday. “It’s time for Washington to move past rhetoric and toward results. Americans deserve to feel safe in their communities.
On Friday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, of Tennessee, called the new information “shocking.”
“It may be shocking to hear that the Biden-Harris administration is actively releasing tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens into our communities, but their own numbers conclusively prove this to be the case. This defies all common sense,” Green said in a statement.
“DHS law enforcement has been directed to mass-release illegal aliens whom they know have criminal convictions or are facing charges for serious crimes—and these dangerous, destructive individuals are making their way into every city and state in this country. How many more Americans need to die or be victimized before this administration is forced to abide by the laws they swore to uphold? This is madness. It is something no civilized, well-functioning society should tolerate,” Green said.
According to Lechleitner, 62,231 noncitizens with criminal convictions for assault are currently not detained by ICE and have been released; 42,915 have pending assault charges. The agency currently is holding 2,348 noncitizens who have been convicted of assault and 1,498 who have pending charges.
The agency has also released 15,811 who have been convicted of sexual assault, 56,533 noncitizens convicted of drug possession, and 2,521 who have been convicted of kidnapping, according to the letter.
Illegal Alien Criminal Statistics And Results For The State Of Texas
According to Texas DHS status indicators, over 458,000 criminal noncitizens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011, and August 31, 2025, of which over 330,000 were classified as illegal noncitizens by DHS.
Between June 1, 2011, and August 31, 2025, these 330,000 illegal noncitizens were charged with more than 583,000 criminal offenses which included arrests for 1,078 homicide charges; 75,973 assault charges; 10,371 burglary charges; 68,187 drug charges; 1,457 kidnapping charges; 29,669 theft charges; 45,799 obstructing police charges; 3,328 robbery charges; 7,446 sexual assault charges; 8,460 sexual offense charges; and 7,343 weapon charges. DPS criminal history records reflect those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 218,000 convictions, including 557 homicide convictions; 28,159 assault convictions; 5,343 burglary convictions; 28,060 drug convictions; 428 kidnapping convictions; 11,267 theft convictions; 17,758 obstructing police convictions; 1,920 robbery convictions; 3,691 sexual assault convictions; 3,848 sexual offense convictions; and 2,390 weapon convictions.
What Are Illegal Alien Criminal Statistics And Results For Other States?
Sadly, we have no reports similar to the above annual report from Texas.
Why is that?
No other state reports its illegal alien crime or punishment statistics!
