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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
June 5, 2018

Amici Curiae Brief of Immigration Law Scholars in Support of Plaintiff the City of Philadelphia
By The City of Philadelphia Plaintiff, v. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Attorney General of the United States, in his official capacity


More than forty percent of the immigration detainers issued to local law enforcement agencies between 2002 and 2015 were directed to individuals with no criminal convictions. Data from this website, which track detainers through Freedom of Information Act requests, shows that of the 1,888,490 detainers obtained by TRAC from 2002 – 2015, 839,908 were issued to individuals with no criminal conviction. See Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Tracking Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detainers, available at http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/detainhistory


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