| ICE Requests for Deportation Orders Down 25% from Last Year's Pace |
| (10 Jan 2013)
The latest available data from the Immigration Courts show that during December 2012 the government reported 14,898 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filings seeking deportation orders.
Such filings are down 25 percent through the first three months of FY 2013 when compared with average monthly filings during FY 2012, according to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Requests for deportation orders were slightly lower in the month of December -- down 0.2 percent -- than the earlier low reached during November.
December also saw a thousand new prosecutorial discretion (PD) closures of cases before the Immigration Courts, fewer than in any month since last April. Overall there were a cumulative 13,407 PD closures through the end of December, representing about 4.8 percent of the Court backlog. TRAC's monthly bulletin on the latest Immigration Court numbers offers very timely statistics compiled from case-by-case Immigration Court records we receive shortly after the end of each month. For more details, with numbers current as of December 31, 2012, see the latest bulletin at: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/latest_immcourt/TRAC's web-based tools have also been updated with the latest data so that you can examine each of these topics and get further details by specific Immigration Court, hearing location and (depending upon the specific tool) nationality, charge, and outcome type -- removals, voluntary departures, terminations, relief, administrative closures. Find TRAC's Immigration Tools at http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/tools/The latest figures for both the Immigration Court and for criminal immigration cases can always be found on TRAC's Immigration site, under the top section headed "Latest Figures." Go to: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/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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