Criminal Immigration Prosecutions Fall 22 Percent
TRAC Immigration reports that the latest available data show that during November 2015 the government reported 4,861 new immigration prosecutions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is down 13.2 percent over the previous month.
When monthly 2015 prosecutions of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, the number of filings was down 22.3 percent.
Prosecutions over the past year are still much lower than they were five years ago. Overall, the data show that prosecutions of this type are down 15.1 percent from levels reported in 2010.
KJ
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