| Immigration Cases Drive Federal Prosecutions to New High in FY 2008 |
| (12 Jan 2009)
An unusually large surge in immigration prosecutions in the last months of FY 2008 means that the annual count of such filings more than quadrupled during the Bush Administration, according the latest available data from the Justice Department.
The recent sharp jump in immigration matters also resulted in the annual number of all kinds of federal criminal prosecutions reaching their all-time high.
Although the five judicial districts where immigration charges make up the largest proportion of the total are strung out along the border with Mexico, the location of the next five ranking districts are more scattered. For a report on the latest enforcement trends, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/201/In addition to counts of all immigration prosecutions and convictions that occurred in September, similarly timely information is available at for many categories of enforcement such as terrorism, white collar crime, official corruption, drugs, etc. Free reports are also available for major agencies such as the DEA, FBI, IRS and DHS. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/The September 2008 criminal data are also available to TRACFED subscribers via the Express, Going Deeper and Analyzer tools. Go to http://tracfed.syr.edu for more information. Customized reports for a specific agency, district, program, lead charge or judge are available via the TRAC Data Interpreter, either as part of a TRACFED subscription or on a per-report basis. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/interpreter to start. TRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/sponsor/ |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Copyright 2016