Immigration Enforcement Fuels Spike in U.S. Cases

author Published by Chris Chmielenski

Federal prosecutions reached a record high in the 2009 fiscal year, with the surge driven by a sharp increase in cases filed against immigration violators.

The 169,612 federal prosecutions were a jump of nearly 9 percent from the previous year, according to Department of Justice data analyzed by a research center at Syracuse University in a new report. Immigration prosecutions were up nearly 16 percent, and made up more than half of all criminal cases brought by the federal government, the report said. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/us/22crime.htmlBy John Schwartz — New York Times

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