Thread: FEDERAL IMMIGRATION PROSECUTIONS SURGED IN 2009

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Illegal Immigration Fuels Federal Prosecutions Spike Updated: 2 hours 52 minutes ago

Allan Lengel
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 2 – Federal prosecutions hit a record high in fiscal 2009, thanks to a sharp uptick in cases against immigrants trying to enter the United States illegally, according to a new report authored by a research center at Syracuse University.

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which analyzed Justice Department data, also found that the FBI, the leader for many years, now ranks fourth among federal agencies, accounting for only 8.7 percent of the filings in 2009.

Customs and Border Protection was No. 1 with 46.5 percent of the cases, followed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement with 12 percent and the Drug Enforcement Administration with 9.5 percent, the report showed.

Susan B. Long, co-director of TRAC and a professor of managerial statistics at Syracuse University, said the increase in immigration cases was because of stepped-up immigration enforcement by the Bush administration, which continued under President Obama. Nine months of fiscal 2009 came under the Obama regime.

The TRAC report showed 169,612 filings against defendants in fiscal 2009, which ended Sept. 30, up 9 percent from the previous record of 155,694 in fiscal 2008 and 42 percent from five years ago (119,494).

The report showed immigration prosecutions jumped by 15.7 percent from 2008 to 2009, and accounted for 54 percent of the total federal prosecutor filings in fiscal 2009. Of those cases, 92 percent involved illegal entry or re-entry of an immigrant into the U.S. Three percent involved fraudulent visas, permits or other forms of identification.

Michael A. Olivas, an immigration expert at the University of Houston Law Center, told The New York Times that he expected immigration cases to rank high on the TRAC list. "I would have been astounded if it wasn't one or two," he said. "We're simply pushing the cattle through the chutes."

Long said It takes far less time to dispose of immigration cases, compared with white-collar and drug cases. She said some of the immigration cases can be disposed of in a day.

Drug cases accounted for the second highest number of criminal filings in 2009 with 16 percent, far below the 37 percent share of cases in 1997 during the intensified war on drugs, TRAC said.

Interestingly, the number of nonimmigration cases dropped in the past five years, going from 81,608 in 2004 to 77,713 in 2008, the report found.

The drop is even more significant, TRAC concluded, when considering that "the size of the population grew over the past five years."

The TRAC report noted that the Obama administration has tried to show concern in the areas of securities and mortgage fraud and other financial crimes.

"The prosecutions of these kinds of white-collar crimes, however, never appeared to have been a major concern of the Justice Department and the investigative agencies like the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission," the report said.

"In (fiscal) 2009, for example, the Justice Department data showed there were only 178 securities fraud prosecutions. While up 22 percent from 2008, this figure still only represents about a third of what it was in 2002."
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The drop is even more significant, TRAC concluded, when considering that "the size of the population grew over the past five years."

Very significant, since our hospitals mostly birth anchor babies, and the illegals are getting more clever, and they are supported by others of their ethnicity.

Here in South Florida it is unnoticable. They should deport illegals who commit misdemeanors as well and then we would have a big difference. In Collier County alone where a third to half of those arrested are illegals you would definitely notice it and in Miami Dade the jail would be partly empty.

The big picture: we know that Obama has severely weakened almost all effective interior enforcement against illegal immigrants -- such as stopping workplace enforcement actions, the no-match letters, and watering down 287(g).

Furthermore, as Lamar Smith and others have noted: DHS data shows between Fiscal Year 2008 to Fiscal Year 2009, administrative arrests of illegals dropped 68%, criminal arrests fell 60%, criminal indictments fell 58%, and criminal convictions fell 63%.

10-year high in prosecution of criminal immigrants
The Associated Press
Updated: 12/23/2009 02:15:48 PM PST

FRESNO, Calif.—Federal officials say the number of cases filed in Northern California against illegal immigrants with criminal records is at a 10-year high.

Authorities in the Eastern District, which covers inland areas from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, announced Wednesday that 414 illegal immigrants were prosecuted this past fiscal year. Nearly all of the cases involved illegal re-entry to the United States.

They say that's a 45-percent increase over the previous fiscal year, and a 130-percent increase over 2007.

Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials say this effort is part of a push to target suspected illegal immigrants with criminal records. Most of the defendants had previously served prison time for aggravated felonies in this country.

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This is propaganda.

Obama is trying to show that he's enforcing the law and can now boondoggle you into falling for weak enforcement conditions in the immigration reform legislation. A lot of these people were arrested during the Bush administration and are just now getting to court. They are not really arresting them either, DHS is picking these guys up the minute they walk out of state prisons. Your local law enforcement officers caught them. Your local judges prosecuted them. Your local and state jails have detained them... You've paid for them. In this case, DHS is just a glorified transportation service from your prison to the border.

Three percent involved fraudulent visas, permits or other forms of identification.

If that number were much-much higher I might believe they were actually doing something about illegal immigration, since the majority of illegal aliens are running around using fake ID.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

This is propaganda.

Obama is trying to show that he's enforcing the law and can now boondoggle you into falling for weak enforcement conditions in the immigration reform legislation. A lot of these people were arrested during the Bush administration and are just now getting to court. They are not really arresting them either, DHS is picking these guys up the minute they walk out of state prisons. Your local law enforcement officers caught them. Your local judges prosecuted them. Your local and state jails have detained them... You've paid for them. In this case, DHS is just a glorified transportation service from your prison to the border.

Three percent involved fraudulent visas, permits or other forms of identification.

If that number were much-much higher I might believe they were actually doing something about illegal immigration, since the majority of illegal aliens are running around using fake ID.

Dixie

Dixie you are right on. In Miami Dade County as well as in many others you have ICE going through the arrest forms and jail documentation to look for illegals. Unfortunately only those convicted for felony arrests and those with major violent crime who are here legally end up being deported once their sentence is served. ICE is involved in police department task forces rounding up gang members and other illegals who have not been caught and tried for crimes they committed but onc e again it is the street level officers and deputies who find them and ICE gets the glory. I see it all the time. Currently I am helping a task force get people of a certain enthic group and that city agency is doing all the leg work.

Don't forget that they're only going after the illegal aliens who they deem to be serious criminal aliens, and have stopped almost all effective enforcement against the vast majority of IAs, including the 8 million illegal workers.

Yes, this is part of the propaganda push by the administration to try to fool us into believing they are enforcing immigration law -- when they have gutted it.