• 2,400+ number of convicted foreign nationals deported in a seven-day period during the “Cross Check” enforcement operation
• 109,700 number of convicted foreign nationals deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the 2011 fiscal year source

• » How authorities pulled it off: The “Cross Check” mission checked the records of people convicted of crimes like robbery, drug trafficking and aggravated assault to see if they were here illegally. If they were, officials deported the convicts. This does raise a few questions — such as how much authorities used racial profiling in this operation — but the silver lining is that the crackdown was at least targeted on a group. About 22 percent of those deported already had outstanding orders of deportation, by the way.

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