An increase in deportation of Azerbaijani citizens from the United States was recorded last year, according to U.S. government data, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
In 2017, 8 Azerbaijanis were officially deported as compared to 1 in 2016, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) statistics show.
Overall, deportations or foreign citizens from the U.S. totaled 226,119 in 2017, a decline of 6 percent from the previous year.
The ICE, whose officers pick up people for deportation away from the border, made 143,470 arrests last year, an increase of more than 20% when compared to 2016.
Only last month, federal prosecutors in Florida filed several indictments targeting what investigators say was a fraudulent-marriage ring, linking Americans with partners from former Soviet satellite countries, including Azerbaijan.
Nine people, two from Azerbaijan, have been arrested as a result.
Investigators allege the Americans were paid - in some case up to $20,000 - to enter into sham marriages with foreign nationals so that the foreigners could apply to become U.S. resident.
The arrested Azerbaijani citizens are: Khagan Mushfig Oglu Nabili, (24 years old) and Svetlana Vladimirovna Shakhramanyan (28 years old).
A.Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
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