WELCOME Here is some background about TRAC's latest special report concerning the level of staffing of immigration judges by the Executive Office for Immigration Review and how that affects the backlog of cases in the nation's Immigration Courts. To allow time for additional reporting, TRAC's report is embargoed for Thursday, June 18, 2009 (6:30 PM EDT Wednesday). TRAC's report can be found at the following address: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/208/ Access will require a user ID and password until Thursday, June 18. To register for media access to the Immigration report during the embargo send an email to trac@syr.edu or call 315-443-3563. Additional Information TRAC's Immigration Project This most recent report is part of a unique multi-year effort to systematically analyze the government's extensive efforts to regulate immigration. For information about the full range of previous TRAC's studies go to our public site at http://trac.syr.edu/immigration. TRACFED TRACFED is a dynamic on-line subscription service with more than 300 gigabytes of data about virtually all aspects of the federal government -- criminal enforcement, civil enforcement, administrative enforcement (IRS), staffing, spending and more. With a dynamic query capability, TRACFED's criminal enforcement covers virtually all federal agencies. Criminal enforcement data are currently updated with details through February 2009. The criminal and civil data go down to the level of individual referral-by-referral records. Or you can query by agency, specific lead charge or program area. The federal staffing data features agency specific information down to names, salaries and duty stations for any county, state or federal judicial district. Spending, by agency or program area, also can be obtained by county, state and federal district. You are free to browse TRACFED without charge, including a search feature that lets you determine the available information on various subjects. For example, type in the word "immigration" (or other word) to obtain a billboard outlining criminal, civil, staffing and other kinds of data relevant to that subject. Also available without charge are two complete easy-to-follow help areas, one for TRAC and a second for TRACFED. Also available is the powerful Data Interpreter tool which lets you choose from thousands of possible reports that can be generated from TRAC's data warehouse. There are three ways to obtain access to TRACFED data. A personal TRACFED subscription ($60/month) can be obtained online. For institutions like news groups, law firms, universities and libraries, site licenses also can be established. Reports generated by the Data Interpreter may be purchased online on a per-report basis with payment by Visa or Mastercard. The current TRAC study was prepared with the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The report builds on previous grants on immigration from the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the JEHT Foundation and the Ford Foundation. TRACFED was developed with the support of Syracuse University and major grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Open Society Institute and others. For more information about TRACFED, go to tracfed.syr.edu. To register for media access to the Immigration Asylum report during the embargo send an email to trac@syr.edu or call 315-443-3563.