Posted on 09/29/2005 6:24:41 AM PDT by OESY
Federal prosecutions for immigration violations more than doubled in the last four years, surpassing drugs as the most frequently pursued federal crime, according to new data released Wednesday by a private research group. The change reflects a major shift in priorities since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Immigration prosecutions surged to 38,000 last year from 16,300 in 2001, as federal authorities mounted a crackdown on illegal immigration as a way of deterring terrorism, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research group connected to Syracuse University that compiled the data.
Prosecutions for drug crimes have begun to decline, dropping to 30,988 last year from 32,753 in 2001, the new data showed. The Syracuse group's data showed that immigration prosecutions passed drug crimes last year as the crime most frequently prosecuted by federal officials.
The study, analyzing half a million federal prosecutions, offers perhaps the firmest evidence to date of the refocusing of federal law enforcement priorities since the Sept. 11 attacks toward illegal immigration, terrorism-related offenses and gun crimes and away from drugs and white-collar crime. Prosecutions for white-collar crime dropped to 7,000 cases last year from 9,500 in 2001, the study found....
Federal prosecutions for gun and weapons crimes rose to more than 10,000 last year from about 6,500 in 2001, the study showed, and child-pornography prosecution rose to 728 cases last year from 428 in 2001.
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Just a token drop in the bucket.
A carrot offered to the complainers. 15-20 illegal aliens tell the real story.
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