Less Than 0.01% Of Homeland Security Cases Are Terrorism Related

[groovychk]

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Less Than 0.01% Of Homeland Security Cases Are Terrorism Related
Records obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act show that only 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were terrorism related, despite the fact that the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that it is the primary focus of the DHS.
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So now I need to find out who this TRAC group is that did the report.

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The story was covered by CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/27/homeland.security.record/), the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701119.html?hpid=topnews), the Associated Press (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6664895,00.html), Time (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1625941,00.html), US News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070529/report_very_few_immigration_ca.htm), and others (http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1710261.php) - the AP story alone was carried by hundreds of news outlets. Check Google News (http://news.google.com/news?um=1&tab=wn&client=firefox-a&hl=en&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22transactional+records+access+clearinghouse%22) and see for yourself!