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Cent Increase: Cbc News and Deportation Measures

cent increase: That amounts to a 33 per cent increase, according to CBC. May Day marches see large crowds, some clashes with policeU.S. lawmakers agree on 1 trillion funding bill Trump's stated deportation plan was to take aim at bad hombres, or convicted serious felons living in America illegally. As May Day marchers in the U.S. on Monday protested deportation measures taken under the administration of President Donald Trump, statistics requested by CBC News from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed arrests within the country and at the border rose to 35,147 in the first quarter of 2017, up from 26,471 the previous year. Judging by ICE's statistics, authorities also rounded up thousands of unauthorized immigrants with otherwise clean records. That number more than doubled the 3,718 non-criminal arrests made by ICE over the same period in Barack Obama's last full year as president in 2016. Nearly one-quarter of those arrested, or 8,557 people, had no criminal record in the first three months of 2017. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.