Border Patrol agents assisted by Air and Marine Operations and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service apprehend migrants who were attempting to illegally enter the U.S. near Penitas, Texas in 2019. Mani Albrecht/CBP file photo
GovExec Daily: Criminal Referrals at the Border and Immigration Policy
Syracuse University's Austin Kocher joins the podcast to his latest immigration research.
The number of criminal referrals sent by the Border Patrol and other Customs and Border Protection officers have recently begun to rise. April 2022 saw the first month in more than two years that such referrals topped the 2,000 mark.
Dr. Austin Kocher is an Assistant Research Professor in the Newhouse School of Public Communication and a researcher with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse, a research institute at Syracuse University that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to study the federal government. He joined the podcast to talk about his research on the increase in criminal immigration referrals at the border.
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