| Continued Decline and Shifting Focus Seen in Criminal Immigration Prosecutions |
| (19 Nov 2012)
The latest available data from the Justice Department show a continuing decline in the number of criminal prosecutions resulting from referrals made by agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
During the last 12 months there have been 81,496 such prosecutions filed, nearly 10 percent fewer than in August 2011 when the 12-month total had been 90,139.
Nearly all (over 98 percent) of CBP's enforcment activity originates within the five districts comprising the southwest border with Mexico. And while ICE's enforcement mandate covers the entire US, referrals from these border districts have increased to 52.3 percent of its total referrals, up from 41.4 percent when President Obama assumed office in January 2009. ICE referrals from districts along the northern border as well as interior districts have both declined during the same period. For full details, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/300/In addition to reports on immigration trends, TRAC continues to offer free reports on program categories such as drugs, white collar crime, terrorism and weapons. TRAC's reports also monitor the enforcement activities of selected government agencies such as DHS, the FBI and the IRS. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through August 2012, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through August 2012 is available to TRACFED subscribers via the Express and Going Deeper 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. To keep up with TRAC, follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreportsTRAC 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/ |
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