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Texas has a strategic position at the border and is a major hub for deportations and apprehensions.
Texas is the top state for deportation proceedings in immigration courts, with 64,514 in the 2014 fiscal year. The nation as a whole had 222,956, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data organization at Syracuse University.
Meanwhile, total apprehensions in Texas by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2013 were 243,550, more than half the U.S. total of 420,789.
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