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Half of All Federal Arrests Are for Immigration-Related Offenses

The Blaze

The Pew Research Center’s analysis of data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that nearly 50 percent — 81, 881 — of the 165,265 arrests made by the federal government in 2014, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available, were for immigration-related offenses, such as illegal border crossing or smuggling other people into the United States.