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http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.ny...
"Over all-combining federal and state prisons-6.4 percent of the nation's prisoners were non citizens in 2005. This is down from 6.8 percent in 2000."*
*Immigrant or non-citizen does not always mean illegal immigrant.
Sorry if The NYT source is not good for you. I could not connect to DOJ.
This report from the GAO comes close to supporting your statement,
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05337r.pdf
It says that 27% of "Federal" Prisoners where "Criminal Aliens"
"Generally, criminal aliens are considered to be non-citizens who are residing in the United States legally or illegally and convicted of a crime."
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