Sunday, January 27, 2013

Nearly $187 Billion Spent on Federal Immigration Enforcement over Past 26 Years

U.S. Spends More on Immigration Enforcement than on FBI, DEA, Secret Service & All Other Federal Criminal Law Enforcement Agencies Combined

Migration Policy Institute, Press Release
January 7, 2013
Contact: Michelle Mittelstadt
(202) 266-1910
mmittelstadt@migrationpolicy.org

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government spends more on federal immigration enforcement than on all other principal federal criminal law enforcement agencies combined, with the nearly $18 billion spent in fiscal 2012 approximately 24 percent higher than collective spending for the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report finds.

The nation’s main immigration enforcement agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), refer more cases for federal prosecution than all Justice Department law enforcement agencies.

And a larger number of individuals are detained each year in the immigration detention system (just under 430,000 in fiscal 2011) than are serving sentences in federal Bureau of Prisons facilities for all other federal crimes.

“Today, immigration enforcement can be seen as the federal government’s highest criminal law enforcement priority, judged on the basis of budget allocations, enforcement actions and case volumes,” said MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner, who co-authored the report, Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery. [...]

Read the full press release:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/2013_1_07.php

Download the report:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/enforcementpillars.pdf  

A briefer version is also available:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/pillars-reportinbrief.pdf

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