ICE Criminal Prosecutions Plummeted In Obama’s Second Term
Posted By Kathryn Watson On 4:35 PM 01/23/2017
Criminal prosecutions resulting from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations plummeted the last five years of Barack Obama’s presidency.
The number of new ICE prosecutions dropped from a high of 21,662 in 2011 to 12,761 in 2016, according to data Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released Monday.
A majority of ICE prosecutions in 2016 (53.2 percent) were for immigration offenses — illegally re-entering the country, illegally smuggling people into the country and illegally harboring illegal aliens — followed by drug offenses (30.6 percent).
Obama’s stance on illegal immigration, arguably, helped propel President Donald Trump to the White House. Trump promised to strengthen immigration enforcement and build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, although White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not establish a timeline for building the wall in his first official briefing Monday.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/23/ic...s-second-term/
