WELCOME Here is some background about TRAC's latest special report concerning the number and composition of deportation proceedings brought by DHS before the Immigration Courts in the ten years preceding and since 9/11/01. To allow time for additional reporting, TRAC's report is embargoed for Friday, September 9, 2011 (6:30 PM EDT Thursday). TRAC's report can be found at the following address: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/260/ Accompanying the report is TRAC's Deportation Proceedings app, a first-of-its-kind tool which provides the public a way to obtain information on deportation proceedings by charge, nationality, state and for each of the regional courts and hearing locations operated by the EOIR throughout the country. The app can be found at the following address: http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/charges/ Access to the report and the Deportation Proceedings app will require a user ID and password until Friday, September 9. To register for media access to the Immigration report during the embargo send an email to trac@syr.edu or call 315-443-3563. Research for the current report was supported by a grant from the Four Freedoms Fund. Previous support for this project has been provided by Public Interest Projects, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the JEHT Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Syracuse University and private donations.