Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Immigration Enforcement Since 9/11: A Reality Check – “An examination of millions of case-by-case records show that the overall number of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportation proceedings in the Immigration Courts in the decade after 9/11 were up by almost one half (45%) — from 1.6 million in the ten years before the attack to 2.3 million in the ten years since. But the data also show that DHS requests for removal orders on terrorism and national security charges — always a very small part of the total — have declined from what they were before the attacks. Likewise, in the decade after 9/11 the number of deportation proceedings on those charged with criminal activity has also fallen.”