DOJ, Known Criminal Aliens Cost Taxpayers $166.5 Billion

Written by Chriss W. Street

Crime Prevention Research Center released a new study based on U.S. Department of Justice data revealing that known criminal aliens committed 13 times more serious crimes than the average American, and cost taxpayers at least $166.5 billion last year.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) notified U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) in September that as of July 21, 2024, there are 662,566 illegal migrants with criminal histories on the Non-Detained Docket, meaning they released into the U.S.

Rep. Gonzalez, whose district covers includes over 800 miles of the U.S. Mexico border, found 479,719 aliens with criminal convictions in their home countries, and another 226,847 crossed into the U.S. with pending criminal charges their home.

Docket list of crimes committed by known criminal migrantsincluded 14,944 homicides; 20,061 sexual assaults; 105,146 assaults; 126,343 with traffic offenses; and 60,268 with burglaries, larcenies, or robberies.

The FBI 2023 U.S. citizen crime statistics state that only about 0.16 percent of reported crimes by legal U.S. residents were for homicide/non-negligent manslaughter. That compares to 2.25 percent for Non-Detained criminal immigrants. Known foreign criminal immigrants were 13 times more likely to commit homicides than Americans.

The 662,566 convicted and likely criminals on Non-Detained Docket, make up about 9% of the 7.4 million illegal aliens released predominantly by the Biden Administration’s Homeland Security into the U.S. general population.

The financial cost of crimes committed by the illegal aliens on the docket is estimated at $166.5 billion, with the largest share of $153.8 billion coming from murder, according to Lott’s report which reviewed cost estimates for each crime.

The estimated financial fully-burdened impact of Non-Detained Docket known criminals include costs for medical care/ambulances, mental health care, police/fire, social/victim services, property loss/damage, and loss of productive activity and school). Estimated costs did not include losses for fear, pain, suffering, and quality of life.

John Lott at Real Clear Politics commented:

“The estimate of over $160 billion in costs from criminal illegal aliens is very likely an underestimate of the true costs. It assumes the average criminal coming into the country commits only one offense similar to what he committed in his home country. We are also not counting the costs of half of criminal illegal aliens.

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