{"id":3478,"date":"2008-07-21T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/n-m-now-no-2-for-immigration-crime-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T21:21:00","slug":"n-m-now-no-2-for-immigration-crime-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/n-m-now-no-2-for-immigration-crime-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"N.M. now No. 2 for immigration-crime prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> district climbed in April to No. 2 on the list of per-capita prosecutions of immigration-related crimes by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With 217 prosecutions, the New Mexico U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office trailed only the <st1:place st=\"on\">Southern California<\/st1:place> office in per-capita prosecutions in April 2008. A year earlier, <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was fifth on the list, and it was also fifth five years ago. Following <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:State> in April 2008 were the west and southern districts of <st1:state st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:State>, the <st1:state st=\"on\">Arizona<\/st1:State> district, the south <st1:state st=\"on\">Florida<\/st1:State> district and the east <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Arkansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A call to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office about the increase in prosecution activity in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Justice Department statistics were published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.syr.edu\/tracreports\/bulletins\/hsaa\/monthlyapr08\/fil\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Overall, the number of Justice Department prosecutions of immigration-related crimes increased 14.4 percent from March to April. Prosecutions rose 71.8 percent from April 2007 to April 2008 and 167.3 percent from April 2003 to April 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe substantial growth in these cases is partly related to increases in the matters filed in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> magistrate courts,\u201d the report states. \u201cIf magistrate cases are excluded and only federal district court cases are counted, the overall increase in prosecutions is 13.8 percent instead of 167.3 percent. The evidence suggests that part of the difference may be the result of improvements in the recording of the magistrate cases by the Justice Department.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico district climbed in April to No. 2 on the list of per-capita prosecutions of immigration-related crimes by the U.S. Department of Justice. With 217 prosecutions, the New Mexico U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office trailed only the Southern California office in per-capita prosecutions in April 2008. A year earlier, New Mexico was fifth on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}