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Deported in coma, saved back in US

"Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a... more

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Deportation reaches all-time high

"The pace of deportations of illegal immigrants from the Pacific Northwest has reached an all-time high. U.S. Immigration... more

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US War Resister faces deportation from Canada

Canada Border Services Agency, continues to routinely effect deportation orders of US Iraq War resisters. Iraq War Resister... more

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Kenya deports anti-Obama author

Jerome Corsi, author of "Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," tried to launch his new book, but... more

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US war resister is granted stay of deportation

Canadian judge rules against deportation of outspoken anti-Iraq war resister. Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman won a stay of... more

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Two gay asylum seekers deported from UK

In the past two days two gay men who claimed their lives would be in danger if they were returned to their home countries have... more

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UK border agency accused of 'illegally' deporting gay man to Uganda

A gay man has been removed from the UK and deported back to Uganda in what his supporters call an illegal act. John... more

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Illegal Immigrant Jailed, Deported for Applying for Cafeteria Job

CARROLLTON, Texas — Maria Martinez' attempt to land a cafeteria job at a suburban Dallas hospital got her arrested,... more

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Leonardo Viellas 13.07

Leonardo Viellas came to London with his partner in 2003 to study Enlgish. He tried to commit suicide on the 13 of August 2007... more

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Keep Your Hungry, Keep Your Poor

A short film about a mexican immigrant, who was raised in the U.S., that lives in fear of deportation. For more, go to... more

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China deports US Tibet protesters

China has deported eight Americans detained in Beijing last week for demonstrating about Tibet during the Olympic Games. The... more

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Mexicans deported from US face shattered lives

The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: "The End."

For those deported from the United States, the words are an unnecessary reminder. Nearly every hour of the day, guards unlock this gate that leads back into Mexico, clicking open the padlocks hung on each side, in each nation.

Every time the gate slams shut, it wipes out a dream, divides a family, ends a life lived in the shadows of the law.

On average, 700 Mexicans expelled from the United States walk through this gate daily, according to Mexican government figures. They include farmers, construction workers, prisoners, nannies, children, entire families.

U.S. deportations have jumped by more than 60 percent over the past five years. Mexicans accounted for nearly two-thirds of those deportees, helping to roll back one of the biggest migrations of recent history. All along the border, shelters once full of people trying to cross into the United States are now home to thousands of deportees who sleep on mattresses strewn inches apart on cement floors.

In a week spent at the Tijuana gate, The Associated Press watched busload after busload of deportees arrive, some in a daze, still stunned over their sudden expulsion. Many stumbled over the Mexican official's question, "Where are you from?" after spending decades in the United States.

The faces of those who stream through reflect how tough and far-reaching the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigration has become.

Among them are young people. There were more than 18,000 repatriations of children under 18 to Mexico this year, and in more than 10,000 cases they were alone, according to the Mexican government.

There are also criminals. The U.S. does not break down figures by country, but it has deported about 55,000 prisoners so far this year. One man walked through the gate in slippers with 80 cents in his pocket, after being picked up by police during a violent fight with his wife in their backyard.

And there are women, with more than 40,000 repatriations since January — about 13 percent of all cases, according to the Mexican government. Sometimes the women are dropped off alone, at night. The U.S. Border Patrol in Washington says the safe repatriation of women is a major concern, but acknowledges there is no overall policy along the 2,000-mile border.

Mexico must now deal with a population that it has long ignored. And those returning must deal with Mexico, a land that for many now seems foreign. The challenge starts the day they walk through the gate the U.S. Border Patrol calls Whiskey II, military code for west of the port of entry.The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is:... more