| New Mexico Immigration Prosecutions Jumped 46% in FY 2013 |
| (13 Nov 2013)
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first eleven months of FY 2013 New Mexico had the fastest growth in criminal immigration prosecutions -- a 45.7 percent jump -- among the nation's 94 judicial districts.
Second highest was the Western District of Texas with a 32.0 percent increase, followed closely by the Southern District of Texas where prosecutions were up by 24.0 percent.
In a curious contrast, immigration prosecutions declined in the two other districts along the southwest border with Mexico. The fall was sharpest for Arizona which had 21.6 fewer prosecutions last year than during FY 2012, while in the Southern District of California immigration prosecutions fell by 13.3 percent. The comparisons of the number of defendants charged with immigration-related offenses are based on case-by-case information obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. For more details, including a twenty-year timeline of such prosecutions, see the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/335/In addition to this report on immigration prosecutions, TRAC continues to offer free reports on program categories such as drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. TRAC's reports also monitor the enforcement activities of selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through August 2013, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through August 2013 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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