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Date: April 25, 2024 Thu
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2 results foundAuthor: Mendelson, Margot Title: Collateral Damage: An Examination of ICE's Fugitive Operations Program Summary: The federal fugitive operations program established to locate, apprehend, and remove fugitive aliens who pose a threat to the community has instead focused chiefly on arresting unauthorized immigrants without criminal convictions. In this report, the Migration Policy Institute finds that 73 percent of nearly 97,000 people arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement fugitive operations teams between the program's inception in 2003 and early 2008 were unauthorized immigrants without criminal records. And arrests of fugitive aliens with criminal convictions have represented a steadily declining share of total arrests by the fugitive operations teams. Details: Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2009. 39p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 7, 2018 at: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/ice-fugitive-operations-program Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/ice-fugitive-operations-program Shelf Number: 115197 Keywords: FugitivesIllegal Immigrants |
Author: DeBacco, Dennis Title: State Progress in Record Reporting for Firearm-Related Background Checks: Fugitives from Justice Summary: Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 (Brady Act), being a fugitive from justice prohibits a person from possessing or purchasing firearms. The Code of Federal Regulations defines a "fugitive from justice" as any person who has fled from any state to avoid prosecution for a felony or a misdemeanor; or any person who leaves the state to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding. The term also includes any person who knows that misdemeanor or felony charges are pending against such person and who leaves the state of prosecution. Following passage of the Brady Act, the Department of Justice provided guidance for applying this prohibition. Accordingly, individuals with qualifying or prohibiting outstanding warrants in any state or federal database searched as a part of a firearms background check are ineligible to receive firearms from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs). As noted in this guidance, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Section is not an adjudicative agency. Rather, it is tasked with making immediate administrative determinations about proposed firearm transfers in circumstances that do not permit the in-depth research necessary to determine whether the proposed transferee has fled a state. In order to meaningfully implement the Congressional mandate, the NICS Section relies on valid criminal warrants found in its supporting databases as a prima facie basis to apply a fugitive from justice prohibitor. When a firearm transfer request is submitted to the NICS Section, NICS queries its supporting databases. If the transferee's identification information matches a warrant record, the NICS Section does further research to confirm that the warrant is still active and that it is for either a criminal felony or non-traffic misdemeanor. If both these conditions are met, then NICS denies the transaction. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2017. 13p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 16, 2017 at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/250533.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/250533.pdf Shelf Number: 146981 Keywords: Criminal Background ChecksFugitivesGun Control policy |