Alarming

Alarming
'Our Citizens Are Being Victimized by Illegal Aliens': The Shocking Findings of a New DOJ/DHS Report - CBN News

The statistics from the Justice Department are startling: One in five inmates in federal prison are foreign-born, and more than 90 percent of those are in the United States illegally, according to a report released on Thursday. "At the border and in communities across America, our citizens are being victimized by illegal aliens who commit crimes," the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, said in a statement on Thursday, calling on Congress to pass President Donald Trump's immigration agenda. "The simple fact is that any offense committed by a criminal alien is ultimately preventable," Sessions added. "Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented."

"It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally," he continued, "and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens." Overall, more than 50,000 immigrants, including those who turned themselves in at ports of entry, tried to enter the US by land over the US-Mexico border last month - the third straight month to surpass 50,000.

Tyler Q. Houlton, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, said the numbers show "that while the Trump administration is restoring the rule of law, no one expects to reverse years of political inaction overnight or in a month. "Smugglers, human traffickers, and nefarious actors know our loopholes well and accordingly exploit them," he said.

- Dear Lord, we pray that You would give our leaders wisdom as to how to deal with this very serious problem of so many illegals being incarcerated in our country. We pray for You to do a work in the prison population that would bring salvation and the mind of Christ to those who find themselves there. We repent of leaving You out of the life of our country in so many ways and ask You to heal our land from the influx of law breakers.

- "Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God." (Jeremiah 3:22)