Deportations Hit Record of Over 250,000
"The Department of Homeland Security, continuing to enforce what it
calls a 'strict policy of arresting, prosecuting and jailing' illegal immigrants, deported a record number of those caught on the nation's borders last year -- more than 280,000 in fiscal year 2007 compared with 186,000 a year earlier. It was the largest number of illegals ever removed from the country in a single year," the Washington Times reports. "The increase is attributable to what veteran law-enforcement authorities said is a revised apprehension process, adding that the department no longer is targeting only criminal illegals for removal, but seeks eventually to apprehend, charge and deport all those who cross illegally into the United States."
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