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At the same time, the U.S. government deported close to 4,000 gang members with criminal records.

For centuries, the Tatars were persecuted by the Tsars, and in 1944 Stalin deported close to two hundred thousand Crimean Tatars to Central Asia.

Mexican authorities deported close to 200,000 people last year, and between October 2014 and May 2015, they detained more Central American migrants than the U.S. Border Patrol.

Since taking office, the Obama administration has implemented a far more aggressive immigration enforcement policy than the Bush administration — deporting close to 400,000 people a year.

"If you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally, your odds of getting deported are close to zero — it's just highly unlikely to happen," John Sandweg, until recently the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an interview.

"We have had four million people deported since 2002 and close to two million since 2008," said Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

In 2009 Veliz came close to being deported back to Mexico after she came into the Texas authorities' purview for a minor traffic violation.

He came harrowingly close to being deported on his return because he had failed to undergo an exit interview at Logan Airport.

A day after being released from federal custody in Pennsylvania, a Haitian immigrant whose detention in December touched off protests told supporters at a Manhattan church on Sunday that he was so close to being deported this month that friends were waiting for him at the airport in Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince

Rev Wilfred Wood, who was the first black bishop in the Church of England, said the treatment of this group of people was a "betrayal of Commonwealth immigrants in Britain", adding that for them to "now find themselves hunted, uprooted and deported like common criminals, comes close to being a crime against humanity".

Over the following days, they deported women and children and executed close to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.