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Human Rights Watch Report: Forced Apart (By the Numbers): Non-Citizens Deported Mostly for Nonviolent Offenses

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Human Rights Watch has released “Forced Apart (By the Numbers):   Non-Citizens Deported Mostly for Nonviolent Offenses,” a 64-page report that uses data from 1997 to 2007 to show that some of the most common crimes for which people were deported were relatively minor offenses, such as marijuana and cocaine possession or traffic offenses. Among legal immigrants who were deported, 77 percent had been convicted for such nonviolent crimes. Many had lived in the country for many years and were forced to leave family and friends.

KJ