LI leads state in undocumented-immigrant deportations
Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | Wilmer Mata, right, with his father Jose Guevara, left, at their Brentwood home. Mata is an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who was being held for deportation in New Jersey and has since been released so he can apply to stay legally in the U.S. (Aug. 8, 2012)
Immigration officers detained more undocumented immigrants for deportation in Nassau and Suffolk counties than anywhere else in the state through the first 18 months of a federal information-sharing program.
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