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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3151 

To require the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

to submit annual reports regarding certain demographic information on 

aliens arrested. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 22, 2015 

Mr. BROOKS of Alabama (for himself, Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, Mr. 

FARENTHOLD, and Mr. SMITH of Texas) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement to submit annual reports regarding certain 

demographic information on aliens arrested. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arrest Statistics Re5 porting Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REPORTING OF INFORMATION ON ARRESTEES. 

7 The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs En8 forcement shall, beginning on the date that is 1 year after 

9 the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 


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1 publish and make publicly available on the Internet a re2 port that includes, for each person arrested during the 

3 year preceding the date of the report and regarding whom 

4 a request was submitted to the Law Enforcement Support 

5 Center authorized under section 236(d) of the Immigra6 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(d)) or any poten7 tial matches forwarded under the information sharing pro8 gram between the Department of Justice and the Depart9 ment of Homeland Security (formerly known as ‘‘Secure 

10 Communities’’), the following information, when available: 

11 (1) The immigration status of the person. 

12 (2) The nationality of the person. 

13 (3) The offense for which the person was ar14 rested, represented by the appropriate National 

15 Crime Information Center offense code. 

16 SEC. 3. REPORTING BY FBI DIRECTOR. 

17 The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

18 shall revise the Uniform Crime Reports to require that 

19 each report pertaining to an arrest shall include the infor20 mation about the arrest published under section 2, and 

21 the Director shall also publish a summary of the data 

22 which shall include— 

23 (1) a table containing the National Crime Infor24 mation Center offense codes and the corresponding 


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1 occurrences for each immigration status category; 

2 and 

3 (2) a table containing the National Crime Infor4 mation Center offense codes and the corresponding 

5 occurrences for each nationality. 

6 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

7 In this Act: 

8 (1) The term ‘‘immigration status’’ includes 

9 status as— 

10 (A) a United States citizen or national; 

11 (B) a lawful permanent resident of the 

12 United States; 

13 (C) a nonimmigrant alien lawfully present 

14 in the United States; or 

15 (D) an alien not lawfully present in the 

16 United States. 

17 (2) The term ‘‘Uniform Crime Reports’’ means 

18 the reports authorized under section 534 of title 28, 

19 United States Code, and administered by the Fed20 eral Bureau of Investigation which compiles nation21 wide criminal statistics for use in law enforcement 

22 administration, operation, and management and to 

23 assess the nature and type of crime in the United 

24 States. 

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