The Big Questions: By Mark Halperin
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The Obama Administration deported a record 396,906 foreign nationals in the year ending Sept. 30, the government announced earlier this month. San Antonio was the No. 1 deportation center, with nearly 63,100 removals in the past year, a near tenfold increase from a decade ago. The vast majority of those deported were from Mexico; the bulk of the rest from Central American countries. Many of those deported had criminal backgrounds. The push to round up illegal aliens and send them back home began in the Bush era but has risen to new levels under the Obama Administration.
SOURCE: U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
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