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Government

Apr. 26, 2014

Report: Low number of immigration cases closed for prosecutor discretion

Only 6.7 percent of immigration cases were closed as a result of prosecutor discretion since October 2012 despite several government memos many attorneys hoped would expand the practice more, a report released Thursday shows.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Only 6.7 percent of immigration cases were closed as a result of prosecutorial discretion since October 2012 despite several government memos that many attorneys hoped would expand the practice significantly, a report released Thursday shows.


The statistics, compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, do show an uptick in the number of cases in which prosecutorial...

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