In 2004, 57% of federal arrests were of american citizens while 43% were noncitizens. in 2014, a decade later, the most recent year where we have full data, the numbers were flipped. noncitizens were 61% of arrests where citizens were 39% s. the surging noncitizen arrest was because of a big increase on arresting for offenses like human smuggling and unlawful entry.re there has been an explosion of people caught entering the u.s. again and again. it s not just that we have become more punitive, more people are coming. in 1992, 690 people convicted of unlawful entry into this country. in 2014, 16,556 people were convicted in an increase of 24 times. again, not because the obama administration was a lot i tougher.nc they were just a lot more criminals to arrest. in 73.2% of cases, these people, the ones who got arrested, had a prior criminal history in this country.es they had been coming here for a better life, but in a lot of cases, it will be at our