[House Appropriation Hearing sample]
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2009
Tuesday, February 26, 2008.
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Mr. Price. Subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Today we will be discussing the wide variety of activities carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and we will first focus on the Agency's Student and Exchange Visitor Program.
BALANCING SECURITY AND STUDENT NEEDS
Mr. Price. Thank you very much. We will put your entire statement in the record, which of course elaborates on the points you made and goes beyond them. Let me ask you first a rather broad question, and then I will zero in somewhat on the fee increases and the benefits that might accrue from an increased flow of fee revenue.
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Question. What percentage of cases presented to prosecutors along the Southwest border are prosecuted? Provide by sector and/or state. What was the prosecution rate of criminals picked up off the street? (Culberson)
Answer. ICE does not track prosecutions, however, ICE works closely with U.S. Attorneys and state and local prosecutors nationwide on a wide variety of cases.
| FY2007 SAC office | Criminal arrests |
Indictments | Convictions[1] |
| El Paso, TX | 2,435 | 1,882 | 1,704 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 1,641 | 623 | 770 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,588 | 1,172 | 1,155 |
| San Diego, CA | 2,318 | 1,147 | 1,842 |
| Fiscal Year Total | 7,982 | 4,824 | 5471 |
Mr. Culberson. Okay.
- ↑ indictments and convictions may be comprised of arrests from previous years.
