[lbo-talk] Obama deports nearly 800,000 immigrants

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 7 11:51:21 PDT 2010


[more change we can believe in!]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100607232.html

U.S. deportations reach record high

By Shankar Vedantam Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that in the past year it has deported a record number of unauthorized immigrants - more than 392,000, about half of whom were convicted criminals.

Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said removals during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 included more than 1,000 murderers, nearly 6,000 sex offenders, 45,000 drug offenders and 28,000 drunk drivers. The number fell short of the agency expectation of 400,000 deportations but still surpassed the 2009 total of 389,834, the previous record, according to the Associated Press.

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