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“Under the Trump administration there are a new set of priorities and essentially anyone [in the country without documentation] is a priority now,” said Susan Long, director of Syracuse University’s TRAC research center.
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Serious crimes are showing up less and less in deportation paperwork filed by federal officials, according to new data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
Serious criminal activity was cited in 3% of 24,000 deportation-related court filings in the Houston area over the last nine months, including data from immigration courts in Conroe and Houston.
Nationally, only 2.8% of recent deportation-related filings were based on alleged criminal activity.
The TRAC report also shows that nationally, criminal activity as a reason for deportation has dropped in half in the last five years.
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