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4 Out of 5 Deportees Were No Threat to Public Security in 2014
Close to 80 percent of deported immigrants in the 2014 fiscal year represented no threat to public security, according to an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Data obtained by TRAC show that between Oct. 1, 2013, and Aug. 31, 2014, a total of 82,878 individuals were deported from the country, in their immense majority on grounds of immigration-law infractions and not for criminal offenses.
Eight out of every 10 requests for removal orders were not based on the possible criminal records of those on trial, but on charges related to immigration laws, the report says.
In the current fiscal year, only 20 percent of deportations – a total of 16,375 cases – were executed on grounds that the individuals constituted a threat to public security.
Immigrants from Mexico headed the list of deportees with 37,291 people returned to their country of origin, followed by Guatemalans with 10,185.
At the same time, the TRAC study estimates that by Sept. 30, the total number of deportations will rise to 90,337, half as many as in 2009.
On average, immigration courts in 2014 took up to 567 days to hand down a verdict on these cases, an increase of 107 days over 2009.
Meanwhile, the number of cases awaiting trial in immigration courts rose to 408,307, almost twice as many as in 2009.
Over the past 11 months, according to TRAC data, the courts opted for removal in half the cases tried, and the highest percentages of deportations by state occurred in Georgia with 77.4 percent, followed by Louisiana with 75.4 percent.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/4-out-of-5-deportees-were-no-threat-to-public-security-in-2014/31128#When:13:08:17Z
