Here we go boys and girls, one more attempt by Fox and the Republicans to spin, color and skew public opinion against rational policies put in place by their favourite hate target, Obama and the Dems.

The caption reads:

Republicans decry ‘deadly’ policy as report shows illegal immigrants committing new crimes

Followed by the summary paragraphs (where most readers of Fox News stop, I warrant):

Roughly one in six illegal immigrants is re-arrested on criminal charges within three years of release, according to new government data being released Tuesday.

Those charges range from murder to drunken-driving and, according to House Republicans pushing out the report, are symptoms of what they describe as a “dangerous and deadly” immigration policy.

The implication here is that one in six illegal immigrants are arrested at least twice, with some ungodly high number of illegal immigrants arrested at least once. They make the attempt to equate illegal immigrants (later they do it to any immigrant) with violent crime.

Let’s take a look at the numbers.

First off, the database includes only those immigrants who were arrested between Oct 27, 2008 and July 31, 2011. It does not include all immigrants nor does it include all illegal immigrants.

The entire database contains 174,777 individuals.

Of those 174,777, 46796 are illegal immigrants, 96731 are legal immigrants and 559 are unknown.

[UPDATE] Correction, I missed Legal Permanent Residents under legal immigrant. The new total is reflected above. (96731)

The report had several questions to be answered, each of which narrowed the field from the previous answer.

1. How many individuals were identified through Secure Communities but not taken into custody?
2. Of those what is the breakdown of US citizen, non-citizen and immigrant status?
3. Of those non-citizens, how many were re-arrested?
4. Of those re-arrested, what was their immigration status?
5. Of those re-arrested, what offences led to re-arrest?

Here is the breakdown of the CHRI checks for aliens:

US Citizen					10867
Non-Immigrant BCC			868
Illegal						37135
Illegal under proceedings	2997
Lawful Perm Res				88693
Legal						10158
Legal under proceedings		1122
Legal Non-immigrant			15714
Removed						4561
Outstanding warrant			2103
Undetermined				519
Missing						40
Total in database			174777

Here is the breakdown of non-citizens who were not held in custody:

Non-Immigrant BCC			860
Illegal						36446
Illegal under proceedings	2750
Lawful Perm Res				86535
Legal						9201
Legal under proceedings		995
Legal Non-immigrant			15427
Removed						4538
Outstanding warrant			2005
Undetermined				490
Missing						39
Total						159286

Here is the breakdown of immigrants who were re-arrested:

Illegal						5210
Illegal under proceedings	480
Lawful Perm Res				16105
Legal						1433
Legal under proceedings		191
Removed						1015
Outstanding warrant			387
Undetermined				197
Missing						19
Total						25037

Since the main story line from Fox is the inability of the Obama administration to do anything about the alien problem, we can remove the numbers for those the Obama administration is obviously attending to, such as both legals and illegals under removal proceedings as well as those already removed and those with warrants for removal.

Total # of illegal immigrants re-arrested	5210 (20.8%)
	Recidivism rate							14.3%
Total # of legal immigrants re-arrested		17538 (70%)
	Recidivism rate							18.32%
Total unknown or missing re-arrested		216 (.86%)
Total being processed by OA					2073 (8.28%)

Overall US recidivism rate = 44.1% to 67.5% [Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Overall immigrant recidivism rate = 15.72%

Maybe the US should keep the immigrants and get rid of everybody else?

More from Fox:

They allegedly committed nearly 8,500 drunken-driving offenses and more than 6,000 drug-related violations. The records also show major criminal offenses, which included murder, battery, rape, kidnapping and nearly 3,000 thefts. Roughly 2 percent of the crimes included carjacking, child molestation, lynching and torture, according to the 13-page Congressional Research Service report.

If we use the information in the report on only those individuals ICE had the authority to bring action against we find different numbers.

Drug violations				1420 (8.7%)
Major Criminal Offences		852 (5.2%)
Thefts						489 (3%)
Other Violent Crimes		253 (1.6%)

Total Offences				16226

Fox really screws up next, by making a statement that some of the offences included child molestation, lynching and torture when the report lists those under a general definition of a category called Other Violent Offences but does not specify those in the breakdown.

How is Fox claiming there were lynching and tortures when they have no evidence for or against?