Homeland Security Department officials said that because of his recent border crossing, Mr. Acosta was among the highest priorities for deportation. Mr. Obama has carried out many more deportations than previous presidents, setting a record of more than 2.4 million formal removals. Mr. Obama, she said, “can do much more to prevent the unnecessary breakup of families.”Some clearly are in the priority group. A decade later, after he and his wife raised two daughters in Genoa City, Wis., immigration agents came to his door to deport him. Mr. Acosta also turned 19, making him too old, immigration officials said, to be given deference as a minor.

Source: New York Times June 25, 2016 00:45 UTC