A fourth of all new immigrants entering the United States illegally through Mexico are being returned to that country to await their deportation hearings as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials ramp up the new process begun earlier this year.
Data obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University and made public Aug. 26 showed that in July, the latest month for which information was available, the individuals involved in 11,804 new cases were returned to Mexico to await their deportation court hearing dates.
