United States Attorney’s Office District of Arizona April 2020 Immigration and Border Report

United States Attorney’s Office District of Arizona April 2020 Immigration and Border Report

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on May 19, 2020. It is reproduced in full below.

I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326)

74 individuals were charged in April with illegal reentry

A. 62 of those 74 individuals had previously been convicted of non-immigration criminal offenses in the U.S.

Of the 62 individuals with non-immigration criminal records:

1. 19 had violent crime convictions, including:

2 individuals had homicide convictions

2 individuals had sex offense convictions

8 individuals had domestic violence convictions

2. 17 had property crime convictions

3. 14 had DUI convictions

4. 28 had drug crime convictions

B. 32 of those 74 individuals had been deported three or more times

II. Alien Smuggling (8 U.S.C. 1324)

14 individuals were charged in April with alien smuggling

III. Illegal Entry (Criminal Consequence Initiative) (8 U.S.C. 1325)

0 individuals were charged in April with illegal entry on the CCI calendar

Criminal conviction information based on preliminary criminal history reports provided by the arresting agency.

These numbers represent United States Attorney's Office prosecutions only. These numbers do not include individuals apprehended by immigration enforcement officials and subjected solely to administrative process.

*The Department of Homeland Security instituted a policy in late March of expeditiously returning aliens who illegally enter the United States rather than detaining them. The decreased number of individuals presented to this Office for prosecution in April coincides with the implementation of that policy and other COVID-19 related border restrictions.

RELEASE NUMBER: 2020-052_April Immigration and Border Crimes Report

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

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