Federal · Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

8 U.S.C. § 1366: Annual report on criminal aliens

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

This statute requires an annual report on illegal aliens incarcerated or convicted of felonies, DOJ removal programs, and methods to prevent unlawful reentry of removed criminal aliens.

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the number of illegal aliens incarcerated in Federal and State prisons for having committed felonies, stating the number incarcerated for each type of offense; the number of illegal aliens convicted of felonies in any Federal or State court, but not sentenced to incarceration, in the year before the report was submitted, stating the number convicted for each type of offense; programs and plans underway in the Department of Justice to ensure the prompt removal from the United States of criminal aliens subject to removal; and methods for identifying and preventing the unlawful reentry of aliens who have been convicted of criminal offenses in the United States and removed from the United States.

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