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>> most illegal immigrants enter the u.s. looking for a better life, not a life of crime. but incidents like this tell a story statistics do not. >> illegal immigrants are about half as likely as native born americans to be incarcerated in the united states. >> studies show illegal immigrants commit less crime than citizens, though some state prisons say otherwise. >> any population at large, you will have some murderers, robbers, some rapists. several be deported and some will come come back friday >> l seven suspects are in mexican nationals with prior deportations. at least one, sources say...

>> i was ready. >> reporter: most illegal immigrants entered the us looking for a better life, not a life of crime. incidents like this tell a story statistics do not. >> illegal immigrants half as likely as nativeborn americans to be incarcerated in the united states. >> reporter: studies show illegal immigrants commit less crimes than citizens, state prisons say otherwise. >> any population has murderous, robbers and rapists. some are going to be deported and some will try to come back. >> you have the right to speak your attorney. >> reporter: all 7 suspects are mexican officials with depor...

Reform. jeff sessions says we need more prisons. you also have a lot of reformers in your party. where do you fall in this sort of -- you know, reform versus more of the same? >> we closed six state prisons. we dropped population from the estimation around 30,000 down to about 19,000. crime has gone down in our state. there is a responsible way of using those that are incarcerated. is there a way to bring that number down significantly and reward people enkaincarcerated? the answer is yes. you can use a based system to bring numbers down significantly that public is safer. the person let out h...

They have experience. they run 11 of these immigrants -- so they have a lot of state prisons, a lot of other things. geogroup the biggest one has 11 immigrant processing centers and then the one family residential center is in kearns city, texas. >> yeah, in dilly texas, that's the family. >> why can't the government do this? >> it's -- these companies have been doing it for a long time i guess there's certainly no reason why the government can't do it. they did it before. they do some of it now. >> right. >> one of the arguments that the companies make is that they have more flexibility. that...

Decades. some including chuck grassley are pushing for those changes to be included. looking at the scope of the prison issue, there are now 2.3 million inmates housed in u.s. prisons. approximately 460,000 of them for drug offenses. there are 102 federal prisons. more than 1700 state prisons. and more than 1800 juvenile facilities, and some 636,000 inmates are released from those facilities each year. are we releasing them in a position to thrive? joining me now garrett haake live on the hill. walk me through this. i know you spoke to democratic senators cory booker and camilla harris, and te...