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Author: TRAC

Title: Detention of Criminal Aliens: What Has Congress Bought?

Summary: Over the last five years, Congress poured $24 billion dollars into the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), upping the overall funding for this agency by 67 percent. The largest as well as the fastest growing segment of these appropriated dollars went to ICE's Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) office whose budget more than doubled (increasing 104 percent). Under the law, the DRO is charged with finding, detaining and removing non-citizens who do not have a legal basis for continuing to reside in this country. To determine what these greatly expanded funding levels accomplished the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) has analyzed hundreds of thousands of ICE records about every detainee held by the government for the period from FY 2005 through the first quarter of FY 2010. The analysis had two goals. The first was to determine the actual policies that were followed from FY 2005 to 2009, mostly under President Bush. The second was to see what if any changes have occurred since last May when ICE's new head, John T. Morton, took over the reins of the agency. This report is the second in a series on ICE enforcement policies. A previous report examined detention transfer practices. By contrast, this report focuses on the changing composition of detainees. A third TRAC report will examine the role of detention on the ICE goal of deporting and removing aliens from this country.

Details: Syracuse, New York: Transnational Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Reports, 2010. 7p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 21, 2018 at: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/224/

Year: 2010

Country: United States

URL: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/224/

Shelf Number: 153339

Keywords:
Criminal Immigrants
Department of Homeland Security
Detention and Removal Operations
Illegal Immigration
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Immigration Detainees
Migration
Non-Citizens