Only 14% of All FY2013 Deportation filings based on Criminal Activity

Syracuse University’s TRAC Immigration reports that only one in seven FY2013 deportation filings were based on criminal grounds of removal.

From their Oct 15, 2013 report:

Of all filings in the Immigration Courts seeking to deport noncitizens during fiscal year 2013, only one in seven (14.4 percent) have been based on alleged criminal activity. This proportion is roughly half what it was twenty years ago, when 28.5 percent — more than a quarter — of removal filings were based on criminal activity.

Since FY 2003, the proportion based on criminal charges has held mostly steady at about 16 percent, aside from a dip in 2005-2006. But this proportion has been inching lower for the past three years.

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