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Immigration

Jul. 23, 2009

Immigration Cases Increase Under Obama

The Obama Administration has continued to prosecute immigrants in federal court at a record clip, according to a new study released Tuesday.

By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Federal prosecution of immigration-related crimes increased during the first few months of the Obama Administration, a new report has found.

Federal courts reported some 9,037 new immigration prosecutions in April 2009, an increase of 33 percent from one year ago, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based non-partisan group. The data is based on information p...

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