The four-day operation resulted in the apprehension and deportation of more than 400 illegal immigrants.
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He asked Congress to add 6, 000 more Border Patrol agents by the end of his presidency and to add 6, 700 more beds so illegal immigrants can be detained while waiting for hearings to determine that they can be sent home.
Pete Wilson helped push the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized more than 3 million illegal immigrants.
Lamar Smith, the Republican who would probably become chairman of the House judiciary committee, is more focused on deporting illegal immigrants and strengthening the border.
Although the numbers are dropping because of the poor economy there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, around six million of them from Mexico.
Napolitano has said all along she wants to remove illegal immigrants, more and more every year.
This would allow the countries to send illegal immigrants home more easily.
In Escondido, Mayor Holt Pfeiler says the city council still hopes to find more subtle ways to pressure illegal immigrants like laws to address overcrowded housing.
An administration which will, by the end of 2013, have deported 2 million illegal immigrants -- more than any other in history.
He can't very well acknowledge to immigration reform advocates that it was political expediency that led him to aggressively deport more than 1.2 million illegal immigrants in his first three years in office.
The areas of agreement include a road to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S., strengthening border security, making the legal immigration system more effective, and cracking down on businesses that employ illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile more Latino immigrants, both legal and illegal, keep pushing in.
Arpaio has had a number of run-ins with his fellow-lawmen, and his present obsession with illegal immigrants has made things even more tense.
More fundamentally, the presence of so many illegal immigrants makes a mockery of all those who are going through the process of immigrating legally.
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Before the sequester even took place, the so-called Department of Homeland Security released 2, 000 illegal immigrants in its custody, more than 10 times the number Press Secretary Jay Carney originally admitted in a White House briefing.
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Agriprocessors lost half its workforce in May when nearly 400 illegal immigrants were arrested there and hundreds more stopped going to work out of fear.
Last year Mexico deported 147, 000 illegal immigrants in all, some 20% more than in 2002.
More than 58% of the estimated 11.2 million illegal immigrants in the United States are Mexican, the Pew Hispanic Center said last year.
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There are reports of illegal immigrants returning home in such numbers that there are now more leaving than coming.
In Britain, the Council of Churches has suggested an amnesty for illegal immigrants with children who have been in the country for more than five years, inspired by limited amnesties passed by the previous Labour government in the 1970s.
Most illegal immigrants are incentivized by the prospect of jobs that pay far more than what they can earn elsewhere.
And the readers in Mexico are more fascinated of the idea to see how Republican candidate will manage the issue of illegal immigrants to the voters during the presidential election.
The last time the government checked, more than half of the people using an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN, were illegal immigrants.
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