Immigration, Drug Trafficking Remain Top Focuses of Federal Law Enforcement

A new report released by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) shows that immigration and drug trafficking, especially along the southern border, are the primary source of federal offenses.

The USSC, which has as one of its responsibilities the collection and analysis of federal sentencing, collects information from the nation’s 94 district courts, divided as they are into 12 circuits. That information forms the basis of the Commission’s Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics, the 2017 edition of which the Commission released Tuesday.