“The number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts keeps rising, along with the average time these pending cases have been waiting. At the end of June 2012 the backlog reached a new all-time high of 314,147. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that total is up 5.6 percent this year, 20 percent higher than it was at the end of FY 2010. Average wait times jumped to 526 days, compared with 489 days at the end of fiscal year 2011 and 447 days at the end of fiscal year 2010. Despite ICE Director John Morton’s announced policy of focusing on deporting serious criminals, the proportion of the Immigration Court’s pending caseload made up of “criminal” cases has not increased, but instead has been steadily falling. Merely 7.9 percent of pending Immigration Court cases involved individuals charged with criminal activities, actions adverse to national security, or aiding terrorism as the basis for ICE seeking removal action.”
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Daily Archives: July 19, 2012
New GAO Reports – Data Center Consolidation, Foreign Assistance, FDIC, SSA Disability Programs, Municipal Securities, TARP, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Data Center Consolidation – Agencies Making Progress on Efforts, but Inventories and Plans Need to Be Completed, GAO-12-742, July 19, 2012 Foreign Assistance – Actions Needed to Help Ensure Quality and Sustainability of USAID Road in Indonesia, GAO-12-728, July 19, 2012 Management Report – Opportunities for Improvements in FDIC’s Shared Loss Estimation Process, GAO-12-752R, July… Continue Reading
Financial Services Roundtable – State of the Financial Services Industry
State of the Financial Services Industry – July 17, 2012. Focus on fortress balance sheets; too big to fail; the cumulative weight of new rules; and economic benefits of big banks “The two-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act is marked by a safer and stronger financial services industry. Capital is at a record high, lending… Continue Reading
Davis Polk: Two Years of Dodd-Frank Infographic
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United Nations Launches New Program – Together we will end AIDS
News release: “A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that domestic funding for HIV has exceeded international investments. The report, Together we will end AIDS, states that low- and middle- income countries invested US$ 8.6 billion for the response in 2011, an increase of 11% over 2010. International funding… Continue Reading
NOAA – Extended Drought Conditions in the United States
“By early July 2012, more than 60% of the contiguous United States was experiencing drought conditions, nearly double the area from early January. This animation shows monthly composites of D1 to D4 categories of drought in the contiguous U.S. over the time frame January 2012 to July 2012 using data from the U.S. Drought Monitor.… Continue Reading
Presentation – Overview of Near Term Policy Agenda Focus on Regulatory Reform
Overview of Near Term Policy Agenda – Focus on Regulatory Reform. “This presentation was delivered to a group of academics who have organized a research group with the goal of “Modeling Financial Sector Linkages to the Macro-Economy”. The research group is organized by the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of… Continue Reading
Financial Stability Oversight Council Makes First Designations in Effort to Protect Against Future Financial Crises
News release: “The Financial Stability Oversight Council (the Council) today voted unanimously to designate eight financial market utilities (FMUs) as systemically important under Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). This action, the first designations made by the Council, represents another key step towards creating a safer,… Continue Reading
New Paper – Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects
Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects. The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9838, Pages 247-257. 21 July 2012, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60646-1 “To implement effective non-communicable disease prevention programmes, policy makers need data for physical activity levels and trends. In this report, we describe physical activity levels worldwide with data for adults (15 years or older)… Continue Reading
National Geographic – 2012 Greendex Map of the World
“In their fourth survey that measures and monitors consumer behaviors that have an impact on the environment, the National Geographic Society and the research consultancy GlobeScan have found that environmentally friendly behavior among consumers has increased from 2010 in only five of 17 countries surveyed. Sustainable consumer behavior has decreased in nine. In only one… Continue Reading
Presentation – Disappearing Phone Booths: Privacy in the Digital Age
Disappearing Phone Booths: Privacy in the Digital Age “CDT Senior Policy Analyst Erica Newland gave a version of this talk to DC Superior Court judges in May 2012. This speech, which draws on past CDT testimony and work, makes the case that in the context of a legal framework that has turned a blind-eye to… Continue Reading
OECD Employment Outlook 2012
“This 30th edition of the OECD Employment Outlook examines the labour market performance of OECD countries as well as the prospects in the short term. Chapter 1 offers an overview of recent developments, focusing on how marginalised groups (youth, the low skilled, women, the chronically unemployed) have fared during the crisis. Chapter 2 looks at… Continue Reading
