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Hudson Valley deportations spike with federal program

An illegal immigrant is fingerprinted as part of

Photo credit: AP Photo AP | An illegal immigrant is fingerprinted as part of processing in order to create or update a file on that immigrant at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters. (Aug. 9, 2012)

A third of New York State's crime-prompted deportations over the past year came from the Hudson Valley, according to data obtained by Newsday.

The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement data show that since the Hudson Valley region began participating in the Secure Communities program in early 2011, 369 illegal immigrants have been deported from Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess...

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