Friday, February 5, 2010

Immigration Prosecutions Rise, Organized Crime, Drugs and Weapons Charges Drop

Courtesy of the Immigration Policy Center:

...a shift in priorities has created the largest number of federal immigration prosecutions of non-violent border crossers ever. The trade-off is while the federal government spends billions of dollars prosecuting non-violent immigration violators, more serious criminals involved in drugs, weapons, and organized crime face a lower probability of prosecution.


You can read the entire report, prepared by the (TRAC) Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse here.

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