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Title 8, Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-102

§1366 Annual Report on Criminal Aliens

Title 8 › CHAPTER 12 — IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › SUBCHAPTER II — IMMIGRATION › Part IX — Miscellaneous › § 1366

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must send a report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees within 12 months after September 30, 1996, and every year after that. Each report must say how many noncitizens in the U.S. illegally are in federal and state prisons for felonies (by type of crime); how many were convicted of felonies but not jailed in the year before the report (by type); what DOJ programs and plans exist to quickly remove criminal noncitizens; and how the government will find and stop removed convicted noncitizens from reentering illegally.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1366

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Not later than 12 months after September 30, 1996, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate a report detailing—
(1)the number of illegal aliens incarcerated in Federal and State prisons for having committed felonies, stating the number incarcerated for each type of offense;
(2)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;
(3)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
(4)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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, and also as part of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997, and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and

Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Transfer of Functions

, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1366

Title 8, Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102