Today, Norway is deporting people at a record rate: more than 7,000 this year.
Malaysia is deporting more and more Indonesian illegal workers, though 1m are thought to remain in the country.
The Obama administration is deporting 400,000 people a year, tens of thousands of whom have no criminal records or only minor convictions.
There are 11m undocumented migrants in America, facing exploitation and the fear of removal even after building homes, families and careers (Mr Obama is deporting people at a record pace; nearly 2m since he took office).
President Obama says the right words about giving hope to the unauthorized, but is still playing the role of hard-core enforcer: his administration is deporting people at record rates and keeping detention cells full.
Coming as the Obama administration says its immigration enforcement priority is deporting dangerous criminals, Mr. van Sander's arrest bewildered many in the couple's 40-member Christian fellowship group, said the chaplain, the Rev. B. Keith Brewer.
