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Fri Apr 28, 2017, 10:02 PM Apr 2017

Despite more arrests, deportations slow

By Tal Kopan, CNN
Updated 3:47 PM ET, Fri April 28, 2017

... According to statistics from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) .. the pace of removals under Trump .. lags behind even the last two years of his predecessor, when .. Obama ordered .. agencies to use more discretion when it came to deporting undocumented immigrants, focusing specifically on criminals.

The numbers also stand against other recently released statistics that showed an uptick in the number of arrests made by ICE in the first two months of Trump's administration, especially of non-criminal immigrants.

From Inauguration Day until this week, ICE removed 54,564 individuals, including 30,667 convicted criminals and 23,897 non-criminals ...

... those numbers track slightly behind the pace of removals during the same time period during the past two years of the Obama administration -- and greatly lag behind the rate of deportations before Obama ordered greater discretion ...


http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/trump-deportations-slow/

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