Feds ramp up deportations in Phoenix, other cities

“As a spotlight shines on lawmakers who are debating immigration reform, federal officials are methodically rounding up and sending home illegal immigrants who have defied orders to leave the United States.

Hundreds are arrested each week.

Deportations have become daily occurrences in Phoenix and cities across the country as the federal government ramps up efforts following the 9/11 terrorist attacks to remove some 600,000 deportation scofflaws, including about 5,800 in Arizona.”

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