Feds prosecute more immigration crimes, report says

Federal prosecutors handled more cases than ever during the 2009 fiscal year -- experiencing a jump of nearly 9 percent, the New York Times reports. They're especially busy with immigration violations. Snip:

Much of the spike, immigration experts say, arises from Bush administration efforts to increase immigration enforcement and to speed prosecutions. The administration greatly increased the number of Border Patrol agents and prosecutors, and also introduced a program known as Operation Streamline that relied on large-scale processing of plea deals in immigrant cases in some parts of the country.

The good news is that prosecuting immigration crimes doesn't take much time. The Times reports that, while the feds reject about half of the white-collar cases sent their way, they usually accept 97 percent of the immigration ones.

Comments

[aqua]

I blame Bush for this. really.

[Pat McKracken]

With a little help from our pal Joe Arpaio.

[cripjak]

Coulda' fooled me.

[Jane Wayne]

Now if we could just get EVERYONE to enforce immigration laws, our country would be in much better shape. Unfortunately, it's too little too late.

[Stifled Freedom]

"The Times reports that, while the feds reject about half of the white-collar cases sent their way, they usually accept 97 percent of the immigration ones."

White collar, Wall Street, crimes have done more damage to the economy.

I wonder what percentage of the immigrations case involved sex.