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A record 157,000 illegal immigrants were removed from the United States during the past year as U.S. authorities stepped up efforts to track down those who may pose security risks, the government said Tuesday.

About half of those deported in the year ending Sept. 30 had criminal convictions, an increase of 6.6 percent over the previous year, while removal of illegal immigrants who have no criminal record increased by more than 10 percent, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

Much of the increase came from targeting fugitive immigrants who failed to report for removal after receiving an order of deportation...

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"These immigration laws are being enforced against immigrants who are simply in this country to work and find a better life for themselves," said Michele Waslin, an immigration policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights organization. "We don't have any evidence that they were national security threats or terrorists."

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...The Ford Foundation, for example, in 1968 single-handedly funded the creation of The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and The Southwest Council Of La Raza, later renamed National Council Of La Raza. Both groups are radical mouthpieces for the "rights" of illegal immigrants (including the advocacy of college tuition for illegals at state universities), have managed to force bilingual education in many areas and remain wholly unrepresentative of the average Hispanic-American citizenry...