Immigrant criminal prosecutions exceed 50% of total number of cases filed in federal court if I am reading this news release correctly. In some parts of the country (like here) the percentage of crimes committed by immigrants appears to be even higher. It wasn't that long ago that the percentage was around thirty percent and that was considered outrageous.

Department of Justice Cuts, Reassigns 81 Immigration Prosecutors

Published October 02, 2011

| Associated Press


WICHITA, Kan. -- As the first and only federal prosecutor in Kansas dedicated solely to handling criminal immigration cases, Barry Disney took a pragmatic approach to filing charges in an interior state that has become a mecca for immigrant labor drawn to its massive meatpacking plants and other food processing industries.

Limited resources were spent on the worst criminals who had been deported and then come back to the United States. Disney's first trial in federal court dealt with two illegal immigrants found speeding through Kansas with an assault rifle wedged in the back seat of a truck and loaded pistols hidden in the vehicle's speaker compartments. Agents had seized $16,000 in drug-tainted currency.

Disney's job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas was created under a supplemental appropriation passed last year in the Southwest Border Security Bill, an initiative targeting criminal immigration cases and Mexican drug cartels. With the end of the federal fiscal year on Friday, the temporary funding for 81 immigration-dedicated federal prosecutors like him has also ended, Justice Department spokeswoman Jessica Smith said in Washington. Disney is one of 13 whose jobs were cut, while 68 others are being reassigned within the Justice Department.

"My frustration was that they added these positions in 2011 because they were needed; the need did not go away," Disney said.

Sixty-eight of the prosecutors will return to their old jobs and will still be able to work on Southwest Border Initiative cases, but not exclusively as they have for the past year, the Justice Department said. Justice officials have confirmed the reductions but have refused to elaborate on them.

"It is not that the U.S. attorney's office is going to ignore those crimes. It is just that they don't have someone whose sole responsibility is to do that," Disney said. "Fewer people are going to have to do more. They are dedicated to doing it. It's just going to be harder for them to do it."

Justice Department data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University found that criminal immigration cases filed in June accounted for 52 percent of new prosecutions in the nation's federal courts.

"The Obama Administration has been pushing and pushing on immigration, so that they choose to let these people go is kind of curious," said David Burnham, co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

A TRAC analysis released earlier this year of criminal enforcement comparing the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama found that immigration prosecutions in the districts along the southwest border increased 77 percent between fiscal 2007 and 2010 under Obama. Elsewhere in the nation, criminal immigration prosecutions during that same period were up 31 percent.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/02/department-justice-cuts-reassigns-81-immigration-prosecutors/#ixzz1ZggwbPiy

The Repubs wanted cuts, so we can't gripe.

But the Dems turn a blind eye to dealing with Illegal Immiogrants and extends them amnesty and even gives them welfare.

Your point is? Nudge Nudge.

go go. go Andy go go, Go Andy go go go......
AndyBGood.

I get tired of telling you how wrong you are.

Who did the first amnesty? Not a dem

Even Bush wanted to be lenient on this subject.

It is not a Dem created nor encouraged problem. California is the only state that may give them welfare, no one else does so that is wrong too.

Umm you are trying to call others wrong? Andrew Johnson was the first person to give Amnesty. And he was a...... wait for it...................................................................................................... wait for it........................................................................

Dem.

Fifty two percent of the total!!! Doesn't that scream a serious problem?

I was talking about my life time

Not a dem created or encouraged problem still stands. That time doesn't effect now.

Just accept the Republican cuts, it is cuts that was wanted.

You act like people are supposed to think everything you type has to relate to your lifetime. I can say it wasn't a republican giving illegals free healthcare.

Wrong as Obama already stated that his administration already has a policy in place to not pursue any illegals who are not committing any other crimes.

Again it was happening if it was happening in California because the rest of the states do not do it.

So didn't they have a Republican Governor?

Bush was more lenient than that...lol

Both parties take various stands on immigration but in the end both parties passively support it.

In reality neither party nor any politicians want to touching this issue with a 10 foot pull........

That would be well, political suicide....

Again both parties are not for us.But to entertain ill agree he was more lenient,however the plan under obama for a Canadian fence is plain stupid.
http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110929/us-canada-border-proposed-fencing-110929/20110929/?hub=EdmontonHome
warning spoiler alert...its cause those crazy koonokes may put a lot more thought into their vote

Bet i can read your mind..imw rong and you are right just because you are right and we need you to protect us from us.ROTFLMAO

Lets have some fun with this thought, First of all you said first person to grant amnesty but then qualify it "IN your lifetime." Ummmmmmm, weak?

Next, why would reopublicans grant amnesty? CHEAP EXPOITABLE LABOR. BUT BUT BUT how about "that was also a concession to the Dems to get them to approve something thje Republicans wanted. Can you say political tradeoffs?


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Wouldn't you expect a high % of immigrant prosecutions from a prosecutor who investigates only immigrants?

The point is that 52% of the total federal prosecutions are for crimes committed by illegals.

Federal Prosecution Data for June 2011 Released
(13 Sep 2011) Federal criminal prosecutions totaled 15,178 for the month of June, according to the most recent data released by the Department of Justice. This was an increase of just under 8 percent from the previous month. Among the program categories, the largest number of prosecutions was seen in immigration, accounting for 52 percent of the filings. Drug related crimes accounted for 15 percent of the total, and weapons offenses made up four percent.

Besides immigration, drugs and weapons, TRAC offers free reports on program categories such as white collar crime, terrorism and civil rights. In addition, TRAC's reports cover the enforcement activities of selected government agencies such as DHS, FBI, IRS and ATF. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through the first nine months of fiscal year 2011, go to:

http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/

LOL


If their job was to prosecute immigrants and 52 percent were then they were actually under par,