[The Old Hoosier]

These are actual deportees, not just illegal aliens.

[ATR]

Yes, this should be very clearly understood. The numbers discussed in this article are "absconders". That is not simply foreign nationals who are illegally in this country. Those numbers are well over 10 million.

This article refers to people who were actually deported by court order, and who ran and are now fugitives within the US.

[Madame Dufarge]

These are actual deportees, not just illegal aliens.

Here's what I can't understand: Why aren't illegal aliens automatically deportees?

[DoughtyOne]

In a written statement to Human Events, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has conceded it cannot vouch for the accuracy of its claim that there are 314,000 immigration "absconders" in the United States. Absconders is the agency’s term for illegal aliens who have been ordered deported by immigration judges but who remain in the country anyway.

And why are these deportees? They are because they were here illegally and were found, processed and ordered to leave. What I am saying is that the deportee number would have been vastly higher if all illegals that were observed by the agencies I mentioned, were processed for deportation.

Does that make more sense?