| Serious Criminal Immigration Convictions Still Infrequent Under Trump |
| (09 Jan 2018)
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during November 2017 the government reported 4,758 new immigration convictions.
According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, this number is down 5.3 percent over the previous month. In addition, of these 4,758 convictions in November 2017, very few - only 576 or 12.1 percent - involved a prison term of one year or more. This number of 576 is down 10.0 percent from the level of a year ago, and 41.1 percent below levels of five years ago.
Throughout this period criminal prosecution and conviction for immigration offenses involved only a small minority of the individuals arrested by CBP and ICE. During FY 2017, for example, available data indicate there were a total of 486,959 apprehensions by the Border Patrol and by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In comparison, case-by-case government records indicate there were 56,766 criminal convictions for immigration matters - or just 11.7 percent of the total number of arrests. During this same period there were 8,208 immigration convictions with sentences of one year or more, representing only 1.7 percent of total arrests. To view the full report, including month-by-month trends, information on lead charges, and the top ranked districts with the most immigration convictions with prison terms of at least a year, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/496/ In addition to these most recent overall figures, TRAC continues to offer free monthly reports on selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. TRAC's reports also monitor program categories such as official corruption, drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through November 2017, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/ Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through November 2017 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. If you want to be sure to receive notifications whenever updated data become available, sign up at: http://tracfed.syr.edu/cgi-bin/tracuser.pl?pub=1&list=imm or follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreports 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/cgi-bin/sponsor/sponsor.pl |
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