The DOJ delivered a report regarding the number of foreign nationals in the United States who have been charged with terrorism-related offenses while in the United States; convicted of terrorism-related offenses while in the United States; or removed from the United States based on terrorism-related activity, affiliation with or provision of material support to a terrorism-related organization, or any other national security related reasons....
According to a list maintained by DOJ’s National Security Division, at least 549 individuals were convicted of international terrorism-related charges in U.S. federal courts between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2016. An analysis conducted by DHS determined that approximately 73 percent (402 of these 549 individuals) were foreign-born. Breaking down the 549 individuals by citizenship status at the time of their respective convictions reveals that: 254 were not U.S. citizens;There is no federal statute specifically prohibiting “honor killings” and the federal government lacks comprehensive data regarding incidents of such offenses at the state and local levels. Although the federal government lacks independent data regarding incidents of honor killings, a study commissioned and provided to the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2014 estimated that an average of 23-27 honor killings occur every year in the United States. Based on a representative sample studied through open media sources, 91 percent of the victims in honor killings in North America were murdered for being “too westernized.” The study further estimated that approximately 1,500 forced marriages occur every year in the United States.
148 were foreign-born, naturalized and received U.S. citizenship; and,
147 were U.S. citizens by birth....
Additional information is also publicly available regarding incidents of gender-based violence against women—which can occur in contexts other than so-called “honor killings,” such as sex offenses, and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Regarding sex offenses, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2011 produced an estimate regarding the population of criminal aliens incarcerated in state prisons and local jails from fiscal years 2003 through 2009. In that report, GAO estimated that over that period, aliens were convicted for 69,929 sex offenses—which, although not explicitly stated in the report, in most instances constitutes gender-based violence against women.
FGM represents another form of gender-based violence against women, and is a federal criminal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 116. It, too, constitutes another crime that has not been tracked in a statistically-aggregated manner at the state level, and is largely under reported. However, a study completed in 2016 by the Centers for Disease Control estimated that 513,000 females in the United States were at risk for undergoing FGM or its consequences in 2012—a number three times higher than the number estimated at risk in 1990.
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