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This report tracks trends in federal arrests and prosecutions for non-US citizens from 1998 to 2018. Using data from six federal criminal-justice agencies, the report finds an increase in immigration crimes and arrests of non-US citizens. Over the twenty year period, federal arrests of non-US citizens 234% while federal arrests of US citizens rose 10%. During the same time, immigration crimes rose 87.3%, becoming the predominant offense amongst federal crimes. However, the biggest tick in arrests for non-US citizens and immigration crimes occurred between 2017 and 2018 which saw a rise of 90.7% and 87.3%, respectively. The country of citizenship of the non-US citizens are from Mexico and Central American countries where from 1998 to 2018, rose 175% and 3303.8%, respectively. From 2017 to 2018, the percent change was 48.3% for Mexican citizens and 160.4% for Central American citizens. The Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) serves as a resource for federal agencies to analyze trends in criminal justice.

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