DENVER (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is disputing a report that the majority of Colorado deportees in the last fiscal year were not high-priority criminals.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse report says of more than 5,200 deportation cases filed in Colorado through Sept.3, about 3,600 involved immigrants of crossing the border into the United States illegally, a low priority violation.
The nonprofit organization partners with Syracuse University to review staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Nicole Navas tells the Denver Post (http://bit.ly/uFMBeV) the report focused only on the technical reasons why an individual is deported and did not include the criminal history that triggered the decision to seek a removal order.
------
Information from: The Denver Post
(Copyright ©2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
TV Station Profiles & Public Inspection Files forKXRM