1.   In many cases, imprisoned illegal immigrants who complete their prison sentences are released while they await deportation proceedings.

2.   An immigration judge refused to grant him a waiver from deportation proceedings.

3.   And the bill would let the Immigration Service rely on secret evidence in deportation proceedings.

4.   Another issue that Ms. Meissner hopes Congress will revisit is mandatory detention of individuals during deportation proceedings.

5.   As modified by lawmakers, the bill would allow such detainees held for seven days before the government would be required to either file charges or begin deportation proceedings.

6.   Ashcroft said that if the quota was filled, the authorities would be able to help an informant by delaying any deportation proceedings.

7.   Attorney General Janet Reno could simply have ordered immigration officials to temporarily halt deportation proceedings against the Haitians, the minimum the administration had promised.

8.   A day before it adjourned in May, the Missouri General Assembly passed a joint resolution urging the Immigration and Naturalization Service to drop deportation proceedings against Morrison.

9.   A new federal law requires immigration officials to lock up criminal aliens while deportation proceedings wind through the system.

10.   A special immigration court will be set up to speed deportation proceedings of the inmates.