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Nation briefs: Record for illegal immigrant deportees

November 6, 2008 By Compiled from news dispatches

The U.S. government arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants, nearly 350,000, in the past year, authorities say. It also naturalized a record number of new Americans in the same time period, more than 1 million. Bush administration officials consider these great accomplishments within a system that President-elect Barack Obama, on his transition Web site, calls "broken and overwhelmed."...

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