Criminal Alien Report December 2022 By David Cross

Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report for the Americas December 2022

January 6, 2023

Data Compiled By David Olen Cross

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on December 1, 2022 that 526 of the 595 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system self-declared their countries of origin as being located in the Americas — North, Central and South America and the West Indies — 88.40 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The United States of America (USA) and USA territories are excluded from this report.):

– North America (Mexico and Canada) had 473 criminal aliens — 89.92 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

– Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama) had 33 criminal aliens — 6.27 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

– South America (Ecuador, Argentina, Peru and Colombia) had eight criminal aliens — 1.52 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

– The West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica and Grenada) had 12 criminal aliens — 2.28 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas.

Criminal aliens from 15 countries located in the Americas were incarcerated in the DOC prison system.

Mexican nationals were 469 of 526 criminal aliens from the Americas incarcerated in the DOC prison system — 89.16 percent of the alien inmates from the Americas in the state’s prisons.

Some background information, all 526 criminal aliens incarcerated in the DOC prison system from the Americas were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have ICE immigration detainers placed on them.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the self-declared countries of origin of the 526 criminal alien inmates from the Americas by number and percentage incarcerated on December 1st in the state’s prisons.

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 December 22.

Here are the ways Oregon residents were victimized by the 526 criminal aliens from the Americas.

Significant numbers, there were 335 of the 526 criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated in DOC prisons for three types of sex crimes — rape, sex abuse and sodomy — 63.69 percent of the alien inmates from the Americas in the state’s prisons.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated on December 1st by type of crime.

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 December 22.

Criminal aliens from the Americas incarcerated in DOC prisons committed at least one crime in 24 of 36 Oregon counties — 66.67 percent of the counties in the state.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated on December 1st that were sent to prison from the state’s 36 counties.