| Criminal Immigration Prosecutions Fall 22 Percent |
| (20 Jan 2016)
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during November 2015, the government reported 4,861 new immigration prosecutions.
This represents a drop of 13.2 percent from the previous month, and is down 22.3 percent from November 2014.
The top five districts for criminal immigration prosecutions continue to be those along the U.S. southern border. The Southern District of Texas led with 386 prosecutions, followed by New Mexico (311), the Western District of Texas (293), Arizona (180) and the Southern District of California (112). For more details including a twelve year timeline and top ten judges, see the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/412/In addition to this report on immigration prosecutions, TRAC continues to offer free monthly reports on selected government agencies such as the IRS, FBI, ATF and DHS. TRAC's reports also monitor program categories such as drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through November 2015, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through November 2015 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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