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New immigration guidelines dramatically expand US deportation powers

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February 22, 2017

Nearly all of the United States' 11 million illegal immigrants can be subject to deportation under the Trump administration's new immigration guidelines released on Tuesday. It allows for interior border checkpoints, currently within 100 miles of the border, anywhere in the US.

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