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deported from U.S. to El
Salvador<http://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/18000-deported-from-u-s-to-el-salvador/>by
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In the past twelve months, the United States government has deported over
400,000 immigrants back to their countries of origin, and according to a
report by El Faro, 95% <http://www.elfaro.net/es/201110/noticias/6350/> of
the deportees were Latin American. The number of deportees has risen by
40,000 since 2008 when almost 350,000 people were deported from the U.S.
*The vast majority (286,893) of the deportees were Mexican. The country with
the second most deportees is Guatemala (33,324). Honduras is third (23,822)
and El Salvador is fourth (18,870). Of those deported, 55% had been charged
with some crime in the U.S.*
President Obama ran on a platform that included immigration reform as one of
his top priorities, but we have still seen no action other than a failed
attempt at passing the Dream Act. Certainly much of the inaction on reform
is attributable to the Tea Party Movement and the extreme positions taken by
the Republican presidential candidates, who seem to stumble over each other
to take the most extreme position possible on immigration enforcement.
According to the online journal
Infowars<http://www.infowars.com/illegal-immigrants-cash-cow-for-private-prison-corporations/>,
immigration enforcement has been a cash cow for private prisons. There are 2
million immigrants in private prisons in the United States. The government
pays these prisons $45-130 per day for their detention.
Though the political climate is not favorable to immigration reform, our
politicians need to at least keep trying and we have to keep this issue on
the front on the front page of the papers.
*voicesfromelsalvador<http://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/author/voicesfromelsalvador/>
* | October 23, 2011 at 3:10 pm | Tags:
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