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Graph of the Day for May 23, 2010
"Some of the proposed ideas in Congress provide a temporary legal status and call for deportation, but fail to answer how the government would deport 11 million people. I don't know how it would be done. I don't know how we would line up all the buses and trains and airplanes and send 11 million people back to their countries of origin." Senator Barack Obama, April 3, 2006.
Source: America's Voice.
Hoven's Index for May 23, 2010
Total deportations, 2000 through 2010: 3 million (from figure above)
Deportable aliens located in the US in 2008:
Total: 791,568
From Mexico: 693,592
From Canada: 764
From Europe: 2,922
From Pakistan: 494
From Yemen: 78
From Saudi Arabia: 71
Source: DHS, 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.
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