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After Three Years, Reforms to U.S. Immigration Courts Still Not Completed
(30 Jun 2009) A broad three-year Justice Department project to make the Immigrations Courts fairer and more effective has not achieved many of its specific goals, according to a point-by-point analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).

The partial failure of the ambitious project started by the Bush Administration in August 2006 leaves many problems for the Obama Administration and Congress to confront. See more...

Immigration Courts Show Decline in Judge-by-Judge Asylum Disparities
(22 Jun 2009) A detailed analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of hundreds of thousands of records obtained from the Immigration Courts has determined that there has been a decrease in the hard-to-explain disparities in the rate at which judges issue denials in asylum matters. See more...
Still Not Enough Judges to Handle Increasing Immigration Backlog
(18 Jun 2009) A special new report from TRAC has determined that the failure to increase immigration judges -- promised by the Bush Administration in the summer of 2006 -- contributed to a substantial jump in the number of backlogged cases in the Immigration Courts. See more...
DEA Prison Rates Vary Across U.S.
(08 Jun 2009) In cases where the DEA is the lead investigative agency, there are significant geographic variations in the rates at which individuals convicted of criminal offenses get sent to prison. See more...
Immigration still driving prosecutions upward
(29 May 2009) After several months of declines since reaching all-time highs in September, new immigration prosecutions in February were up 22% from the previous month. See more...
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