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April 4, 2012 |
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Who is a Criminal? ICE’s Less-than-Reliable Numbers on 'Criminal Offenders'
By Van Le
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ICE records obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that everything from cashing a check with insufficient funds to traffic offenses can get someone labeled “Level 1.”
In fact, traffic offenses were the second-most-common charge in detention according to the records TRAC analyzed.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2012
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