U.S. deportations double over 10 years
by Kyung Jin Lee
Feb 23, 2010



Source: Office of Immigration Statistics/Department of Homeland's 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics




The United States almost doubled the deportation rate of foreign nationals over a 10-year span, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s statistical yearbook.

Chicago immigration attorney Salvador Cicero said in recent years he has seen a greater number of immigrants stopped by local police for frivolous reasons, like obstruction of view in a car because of a crucifix hanging on the rearview mirror.

“And through this mechanism [the police] would stop people, and many times they would illegally search [immigrants’] cars and thereafter ask them for their legal status and detain them,â€