US deports record number of illegal immigrants
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US authorities deported a record 393,000 illegal immigrants in the 2010 fiscal year that ended last month, half of whom had committed a crime, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Wednesday.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency removed nearly 393,000 people in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, a slight increase over the same period a year earlier. More than 195,000 had been convicted of a crime, almost 44 percent more than the previous year, ICE said. (Reuters)
