Deportations Reach Record Numbers

Thu., Dec. 28, 1995

Compiled From Wire Services

The United States deported a record 51,600 illegal aliens during 1995, a 15 percent increase over last year, under a Clinton administration crackdown, according to a government report.

“This is the largest number of illegal aliens removed in one year since the INS has been keeping figures,” Paul Risley, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said Wednesday.

The report, to be released today, comes as conservative Republicans in Congress push for measures to reduce legal immigration into the United States and to keep illegal aliens from U.S. jobs by providing employers with information about potential workers’ residency status through a federal database.

Immigration is expected to be a major issue during the 1996 presidential race as well, especially in border states such as California and Texas where anti-immigrant feelings have increased amid economic and job concerns.

The report blames official corruption and lax law enforcement in several countries for the flow of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens worldwide.

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