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Immigration

Jan. 15, 2009

Immigration Prosecutions Are On the Rise, TRAC Study Says

Seventy-four percent of all federal cases prosecuted in the Southern District of California last year involved immigration violations, according to a new report.

By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Seventy-four percent of all federal cases prosecuted in the Southern District of California last year involved immigration violations, according to a new report.

The study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, a Syracuse University-based think tank, found that only federal districts in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico saw a greater surge in prosecutions filed in 2008.

While ...

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