rssDOJ Escalates Criminal Prosecutions of Immigrants
Friday, August 21, 2009 at 11:20 am
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The Justice Department is stepping up its crackdown on illegal immigrants, with the latest data available showing an almost 20 percent increase in criminal prosecutions.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an independent project of Sycracuse University that analyzes government data, reports today that during May 2009, DOJ reported 2,147 new prosecutions referred by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security. That’s an increase of 18.9 percent over the month before.
TRAC concludes that “at least through the first five months of the Obama administration there has been no let up in the increase in criminal prosecutions as a result of ICE’s enforcement activities.”
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Comment posted August 21, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
It's spelled “Syracuse”, not “Sycracuse”….. No spell check over there?
Comment posted August 22, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
I assume that the prosecution referred to in this story is directed at illegal employers. That assumption is based on the Obama administrations statement that it would target the employers rather then the illegal immigrants and on recent news stories that showed the employer going to court.
If so, then DOJ is acting wisely. Illegals don't come to the U.S. to hear “feel good” messages from the liberals. They come because conservative and libertarian labor haters offer them jobs.
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