Deportations set another record
A record number of illegal immigrants were deported in fiscal 2010, according to figures released Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Of the 392,862 deportations from October 2009 through September of this year, about half were illegal immigrants with criminal records. The total was about 3,000 more deportations than the record set in the previous year.
Their home countries have been fussing about getting them back -- it seems their crime rates go up, and in the crimes are nastier. | More than 195,000 criminals were deported in 2010, a 70 percent increase over 2008.
The report comes as the number of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. is declining, according to a report released in September by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Based on census and labor statistics, the Pew report found that roughly 300,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border annually from 2007 to 2009, down from about 850,000 that entered annually from 2000 to 2005.
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-10-07 |