exican immigrant Bernardo Ortega Guerrero of Vera Cruz, Mexico, rides in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bus while heading to a waiting deportation jet in Broadview, Il., Tuesday, May 25, 2010.
But a New York Times analysis of internal government records shows that since President Obama took office, two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all. Twenty percent - or about 394,000 - of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show.
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Maybe the times should be asking how it is that Mexico became so impoverished? Who was behind that? Who benefits off of the decline of both American and Mexican standard of living. This article is an appeal to emotion no different than the run up to any of these wars or any of the crises that have invoked the loss of our rights. They will remove that border for all intensive purposes and they want you to help them do it. Welcome to the new Tijuana.