Department of Justice Prosecuted a Record-Breaking Number of Immigration-Related Cases in Fiscal

justice.gov ^ | 10/18/19 | DOJ

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Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Department of Justice Prosecuted a Record-Breaking Number of Immigration-Related Cases in Fiscal Year 2019

 The Justice Department today announced that in fiscal year 2019 (FY19), its U.S. Attorneys’ Offices prosecuted the highest number of immigration-related offenses since record keeping began more than 25 years ago. These numbers successfully reverse the trend in previous years of declining prosecutions for felony Illegal Reentry defendants, misdemeanor Improper Entry defendants and felony Alien Smuggling defendants.

“These record-breaking numbers are a testament to the dedication of our U.S. Attorneys’ Offices throughout the nation, especially our Southwest border offices,” said Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen. “In addition to the usual workload of each case the Department prosecutes, this effort was made possible after our U.S. Attorneys’ Offices restored essential partnerships with national, state and local law-enforcement partners.”

The newly announced numbers show the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices charged 25,426 defendants with felony Illegal Reentry (8 U.S.C. §1326) in FY19, an increase of 8.5 percent from FY18.

80,866 defendants were charged with misdemeanor Improper Entry (8 U.S.C. §1325(a)), surpassing the record set just last year by 18.1 percent. 

4,297 defendants were charged with Alien Smuggling (8 U.S.C. §1324), an increase of 15.4 percent from FY18. 

The increased prosecutions are part of the Department of Justice’s commitment to enforcing America’s laws to address the crisis at the border. This announcement comes one week after the Department of Justice announced its Executive Office for Immigration Review completed 275,000 cases in FY19, the second highest number of completed cases in the court’s history.

Topic(s): 

Immigration

Component(s): 

U.S. Attorneys (USAO)

Press Release Number: 

19-1,115

[Bonemaker]

“Department of Justice Prosecuted a Record-Breaking Number of Immigration-Related Cases in Fiscal...”

How about a record number of democrat traitors?

[Lurkinanloomin]

We need to set new records every year for the next 5 years.

[Innovative]

Excellent.

Keep it up!

[bitt]

Make America SAFE Again!!!!

[zeestephen]

Congratulations to President Trump for pushing the prosecution needle in the right direction.

Unfortunately, the Department of Homeland Security has recently developed a bad pre-election year habit of withholding material facts.

In Fiscal 2019, about 900,000 persons were detained on the southwest border. About 700,000 of them will eventually get “Catch and Release.”

“Catch and Release” just means you get a court date and promise to show up. How many of them are still in the USA? No one really knows.

More prosecutions are great, but DHS forgot to mention that more than 1 million illegal residents have already received a “Final Order of Removal” - but they still live in the USA, and they have almost no risk of being deported, unless they commit other felonies.

DHS also forgot to mention that half the illegals in the USA arrived here legally - they just over stay their visas.

DHS also forgot to mention that more than 100,000 illegals manage to cross the southwest border each year without being arrested.

Bottom Line - the only solution to massive illegal immigration is to implement and vigorously enforce Universal E-Verify.

No jobs?

No illegals.

Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that Trump will ever do that.

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Articles re the ending of “Catch and Release” are plentiful and relate to two actions by President Trump to end the program. This one is from APril 2019.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-trump-memo-idUSKCN1HD31Q

[zeestephen]

Re: Articles about the ending of “Catch and Release” are plentiful

Now that's something we can both agree on!

Re: This article is from April 2019.

Whoops - your link is from April 2018.

17 months (!) later, on 19 September 2019, this is what Trump was saying:

“There will be no more catch and release,” Trump told reporters Wednesday aboard Air Force One. “We won’t have catch within two weeks. We’ll be free of catch and release, releasing people.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/trump-says-catch-and-release-border-policy-to-end-in-two-weeks

Face it, Dude - Trump is a pathological liar on the immigration issue.

Also - Trump's promise to send asylum seekers to a “third” country is a total scam.

The only reason people apply for asylum is because they can get welfare benefits and job permits while their case is being litigated.

More than 90% of asylum cases are rejected.

Bottom Line - if Trump starts sending asylees to a third country, NO ONE is going to apply for asylum.

They will just demand their day in court and get Catch and Release.

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zeestephen~Face it, Dude - Trump is a pathological liar on the immigration issue.

Me: I don’t believe Trump is a pathological liar so we’re not gonna agree on much.

I have been watching this issue play out since he took office and there’s some mighty weird jurisdictional battles going on. He put up portions of a wall and had the army corp lock a gate in an extant wall. Some other gov official came along and opened the gate and locked it open with a chain and threatened to arrest anyone trying to close the gate.

I don’t know if that’s state or some other deep state saturated arm of the feds instituted by Oama/Clinton/Bush etc. I believe the president understands that the border is a military vulnerability as well as a port for trafficking guns, drugs and people so I don’t doubt his resolve to close the border, I’ just stunned at the loop holes. It seems the states also “get to play” in that game and work against the closure of the border as if their lives depend upon it.

zeestephenAlso - Trump’s promise to send asylum seekers to a “third” country is a total scam.

The only reason people apply for asylum is because they can get welfare benefits and job permits while their case is being litigated.

More than 90% of asylum cases are rejected.

Bottom Line - if Trump starts sending asylees to a third country, NO ONE is going to apply for asylum.

They will just demand their day in court and get Catch and Release.

Me: I dont’ think that’s the strategy. He doesn’t want them here. He’s actually reducing the inflow and telling peeps you can’t stay but he’s working against a headwind of loop holes and work arounds that our enemies are exploiting. He’s getting the job done. As many holes as they find, he closes them.

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“SNIP

....the “Remain in Mexico” policy in January, when new U.S. rules made it much harder to seek asylum on arrival—and its escalation in June, when Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Mexican goods, and AMLO agreed to deploy 26,000 National Guard troops to the border.

Under the new policy, they were sent back to Mexico by the tens of thousands and required to wait in dangerous border towns for a court date....Word was getting back that applications weren’t being approved, anyway.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/smuggler-describes-children-die-gets-120029359.html

[zeestephen]

900,000 illegal immigrants were detained at the southwest border in the last 12 months.

From memory, there is currently a backlog of 750,000 illegal border crossing court cases waiting to be litigated. Almost all of those cases are Catch and Release.

We already have at least 100,000 border jumpers in custody - most of them convicted criminals, gang members, drug mules, etc.

Where, exactly, are we going to detain hundreds of thousands of new border jumpers? Except for a preliminary hearing, their court cases won't even come up for another year!

Do you pay attention to the legal work visa issue at all?

Trump has issued more “high skill” H1B and OPT work visas than Obama did. I put “high skill” in quotes because 99% of those foreign workers are completely average engineers and scientists who directly compete against completely average USA citizens.

Do you pay attention to the DACA issue? A total scam!

Trump has spent the last two years trying to declare DACA unconstitutional.

Why?

The “D” in DACA stands for “Deferred Prosecution.” The DACA kids are unlawfully present in the USA. All Trump has to do is enforce the law as it is clearly written in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. No court can stop him.

Sorry - I stand by my original assessment. Trump is a pathological liar on the immigration issue.

[zeestephen]

The only border jumpers who are being sent back to Mexico are people who claim asylum.

Bottom Line - no one is going to ask for asylum anymore.

They are going to ask for a court date and Catch and Release.

By the way - we have a treaty with Mexico that allows us to send Mexican border jumpers straight back to Mexico without any due process.

There is no reason Trump cannot coerce all the Central American countries to sign exactly the same treaty that Mexico (and Canada) have signed.

Illegal immigrants trying to cross the southwest border would go down by 90% if Trump forced that treaty on all Central American countries.

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Sorry - I stand by my original assessment. Trump is a pathological liar on the immigration issue.
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