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Massive rate of federal immigration prosecutions in Texas' Southern and Western districts not sustainable given prison guard shortages

For a great primer on recent federal sentencing dynamics in Texas' Southern and Western districts driving national immigration detention policy, see this collection of recent data compiled by the wonderful (at least for data geeks) Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse out of Syracuse U. They reported:Federal immigration prosecutions in March 2008 continued their recent and highly unusual surge, apparently reaching an all-time high, according to timely data from the Justice Department. The total of 9,350 such prosecutions was up by almost 50% from the previous month and 73% from the previous year.See Figures 2 and 3 for graphs displaying the massive shift in prosecutorial resources now being devoted to civil and criminal immigration offenses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).