Download or read book Forced Apart (by the Numbers) written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 64-page report uses data from 1997 to 2007 from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to evaluate the effects of sweeping deportation laws passed in 1996. It shows that some of the most common crimes for which people were deported were relatively minor offenses, such as marijuana and cocaine possession or traffic offenses. Among legal immigrants who were deported, 77 percent had been convicted for such nonviolent crimes. Many had lived in the country for years and were forced apart from close family members.