1.   A deportation officer in Miami who was returning another immigrant to London volunteered to try to contact the father, whom immigration officials learned was living in England illegally.

2.   It is unlikely that an inspector ever received word from a deportation officer to look out for him, officials said.

3.   It was a big day, and an unusual one, for the two deportation officers, because their supervisors rarely give them permission to leave their desks.

4.   Shortly after that article was published, U.S. immigration officials sent a deportation officer to London, where the father had moved.