Thousands deported from Florida
Security Breach
The U.S. government has deported thousands of non-criminal immigrants living in Florida through a program designed to round up violent offenders.
By Thomas Francis
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Secure Communities, a federal immigration-enforcement program designed to identify and deport violent illegal immigrants, has increasingly targeted and deported undocumented immigrants with no criminal backgrounds.
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Nationwide, according to a Florida Center for Investigative Reporting analysis of data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 28 percent of the 75,461 immigrants deported since Secure Communities’ inception in 2008 have been “non-criminalâ€