US Immigration

2010 Record Deportation Numbers

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2010 Record Deportation Numbers

The fiscal year of 2010 saw more migrant deportations from the U.S. than ever before. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 392,862 foreigners in 2010, 23,000 deportations more than in 2008. Nearly 200,000 of the people who were deported in 2010 had been convicted of crimes. That number was up by 81,000 from 2008. In the fiscal year of 2009, 389,834 people were removed from the United States, and ICE is hoping to deport more than 400,000 illegal immigrants in 2011. ICE is also expanding the Secure Communities Program, were inmates in local prisons have their fingerprints run against FBI and ICE databases. The Secure Communities program is expanding rapidly, and in 2010 more than 90,000 people were arrested by federal authorities through the program, and deportation proceedings have been initiated for nearly 50,000 of them. The program has also identified many who were later acquitted of any crimes, but whose cases are now pending because they were found to be in the U.S. illegally. In its two-year history the Secure Communities program has identified 69,905 undocumented workers that have later been deported, most of them for committing minor or medium-level crimes. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aiming to further target immigrants with criminal records in 2011, along with businesses that employ illegal immigrants.