The Immigration and Naturalization Service has announced that the number of deportations for the first nine months of the current fiscal year is more than for all of the total previous year. The INS credits the dramatic increase in a new program allowing deportation proceedings to start while criminals are still in jail. The INS used to wait until jailed aliens were finished serving their sentences before begin proceedings.
According to INS General Counsel David Martin, the number of deportations, more than 32,000, is up nearly 50% over last year. 40% of the criminal aliens removed are convicted of drug offences.
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