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Immigration agency says more illegals being sent home, including those in jail By Tim Smith • CAPITAL BUREAU • July 6, 2008 COLUMBIA -- By the time police caught up with Guillermo Raya-Mendoza last April, the 22-year-old Mexican had been involved in two Myrtle Beach-area wrecks in a car stolen from a Greenville family. Authorities eventually charged him with burglarizing the family's Myrtle Beach duplex, grand theft, DUI, driving without a license and hit and run. He served seven months behind bars for his crimes, and when he was released from a Columbia prison, he was picked up by federal immigration agents. Raya-Mendoza was among 14,118 illegal immigrants in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia deported by the federal government since Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency. TOPICS:... [read full story]
