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Southern California Public Radio
December 7, 2011

New report counts fewer criminal deportations; ICE calls the analysis ‘misleading’
By Leslie Berestein Rojas


In October, the Obama administration released deportation statistics indicating that a majority of the record 396,906 people deported in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, had criminal records. Nearly 55 percent were counted as being convicted of felonies or misdemeanors, with the percentage of criminal removals overall up 89 percent since 2008. But the numbers in a new report based on immigration court records from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) add up differently. According to the TRAC analysis, of all the deportation proceedings initiated between July and September of this year in the nation’s immigration courts, only 13.8 involved individuals charged with having engaged in criminal activity. The analysis also counts fewer removals involving criminal charges this year, as opposed to fiscal year 2010.


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