The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University, has reported that there has been an exponential increase of rejected deportation cases by Immigration Courts.

TRAC's report includes the following findings:

• During the last three months of FY 2010, the rejection rate of ICE requests for removal (deportation) was nearly one out of three or 31 percent. This turndown rate is up from what it was — one out of every four — 12 months earlier.
• For all of FY 2010, some courts turned down ICE removal requests more than half of the time. Among them were the Immigration Courts in New York City (70% turned down), Oregon (63% turned down), Los Angeles (63% turned down), Miami (59% turned down) and Philadelphia (55% turned down).
• Considering the records for the last five years, the information shows that the number of those cases where ICE sought a removal that the courts then determined were not subject to deportation because the individuals were entitled to reside in the United States was considerable, more than a quarter of a million individuals.

Looks like the Obama administration is being just a tad (31%) overzealous in reaching their 400,000 deportations per year mandate.

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Justice Strategies, a prisoner advocacy group based in New York, has analyzed statistics that show that in New York City the Obama administration is not targeting the most dangerous criminals for deportation, as they have claimed.

The study concludes that noncitizen prisoners that have been accused of misdemeanors are identified for deportation more often than individuals charged with felonies. Moreover, individuals that have been charged with lower-level felonies were identified for deportation more often than those charged with more serious crimes.

The report's findings include:

• In New York City there is no correlation between ICE detainer issuance and the severity of a criminal charge.
• Over half of ICE detainers are issued within one day, indicating that the screening process is not investigative.
• Controlling for race and offense level, noncitizens with a drug-related top charge and an ICE detainer spend 73 days longer in jail before being discharged, on average, than those without an ICE detainer.
• Noncitizens with an ICE detainer are effectively barred from pre-trial release on bail, no matter the offense level.

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