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US deports more than 1,100 murderers in a yearWASHINGTON — The United States expelled a record 1,119 convicted murderers over the past year
and for the first time more than half of almost 400,000 deportees were criminals, officials said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama's administration has prioritized the deportation of foreign convicted criminals in an attempt, it says, to apply immigration laws in a more humane way while waiting for broad immigration reform.
Obama has called for a comprehensive overhaul that would include strengthening borders, but also granting a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
Figures released Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showed that the Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations removed a record 396,906 illegal aliens in 2010-2011.
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As well as 1,119 deportees convicted of homicide, almost 6,000 had been found guilty of sexual offenses and almost 45,000 of drug related crimes. Most crimes were committed in the United States.
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