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The data come from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and were compiled and released by the nonprofit
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a unit of Syracuse University.
TRAC's analysis of the data showed that the Obama officials are pushing the deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes, with
136,343 in that category ordered out in fiscal year 2009, a nearly 17 percent rise over the year before.
Deportations, year by year
Fiscal All 12 First 9
Year months months
2005 195,066 141,837
2006 229,797 168,876
2007 291,060 213,388
2008 369,221 254,763
2009 389,834 287,868
2010 279,035*
*preliminary figure
SOURCE: TRAC, from statistics provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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