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TRAC Report – Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prosecutorial Discretion Initiative: Latest Figures

ICE Prosecutorial Discretion by Location As of May 31, 2012: “As of May 31, 2012 a total of 4,585 cases were closed under a special Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program announced last August. Under this program, the number of cases closed due to prosecutorial discretion (PD) was up from 2,609 as of the end of March, but still amounted to only 1.5 percent of the 298,173 cases pending before the Immigration Courts as of the end of last September. The Los Angeles Immigration Court now leads the country with the largest number of closures under this program — 534. The Denver Immigration Court was second with 401, while the San Francisco Immigration Court was third with 387.”

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