Criminal Immigration Prosecutions DOWN!

The latest case-by-case data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse show that the rate of criminal immigration prosecutions the government reported during the first three months of FY 2010 is down by 8.8 percent compared to quarterly figures for last year. If the prosecution pace continues at this rate for the rest of FY 2010, the number of criminal prosecutions will reach only 83,722 as compared with 91,899 during FY 2009. Driving this decline is a sharp 24 percent drop off in criminal prosecutions for illegal entry (8 USC 1325), a crime for which those convicted are rarely sentenced to any significant time in prison.

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