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400,000 is the number of immigrants that were deported by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement last month during the end of the fiscal year.  The number has broken yet another record in it’s third year in a row.

Deseret News reports that the majority of the deported immigrants had felony or misdemeanor convictions.  This has become a major problem with people who aren’t quick to get on board with the deportation of the undocumented immigrants as some of them have only committed minor misdemeanors, including setting up roadside carts or even reporting domestic violence. It has made immigrants more reluctant to call the police.

Joanne Lin, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union comments on the unnecessary enforcement. “These record-breaking deportation numbers come at a time when illegal immigration rates have plummeted, the undocumented population has decreased substantially and violent crime rates are at their lowest levels in 40 years. Our country can no longer afford to pay for uncontrolled, unwarranted DHS spending, at the cost to U.S. taxpayers.”

Many argue that Obama’s administration is also not being aggressive enough in enforcing immigration laws.

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Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain all took part in a heated debate on Tuesday, as the Republican challengers debated over topical issues such as illegal immigration and Cain’s 9-9-9 plan.

It appeared to be that Romney was the main receiver of blows, especially from Rick Perry regarding the illegal immigration issue and how the former Massachusetts governor hired illegal Latin American workers to cut his lawn, even though he fired them as soon as he found out.  Romney shot back at the Perry, the governor of Texas, “Texas has had a 60 percent increse in illegal immigrants in Texas. If there’s someone who has a record as governor with regards to illegal immigration that doesn’t stand up to muster, it’s you, not me.”

While Romney is having a hard time convincing conservatives that he is apart of their party, Cain was also receiving a few hits about his 999 plan.  It was only noticeable that he had nothing to say when his rivals brought up flaws in the plan, like the 9 percent national sales tax for example, and that he stated that “their only strategy is to attack me.”

Evidently, polls show that Romney will mostly likely be in the lead in the Republican party against Obama in 2012.