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January 9, 2013

Report: Admin Spends More on Immigration Enforcement than Other Agencies Combined 
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A new report says the Obama administration spent more money on
immigration enforcement in the past fiscal year than it did on all other
federal law enforcement agencies combined. The Migration Policy
Institute says the United States spent about $18 billion on immigration
enforcement programs, surpassing the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement
Administration; and Secret Service. The number of criminal prosecutions
for immigration-related violations, meanwhile, has skyrocketed in the
past decade, now accounting for more than half of all criminal
prosecutions at the federal level. The report's authors conclude
immigration is now the Obama administration's top law enforcement
priority.

 

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