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Number of Immigration Detention Sites: 961 (2007)

Detention Capacity: 33,400 (2009)

Annual Number of Deportations:
367,000 (2008)

Undocumented Population:
11.6 million (2006)

Number of asylum seekers:
83,884 (end of 2007)


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