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A few deportation has resulted from the Tucson city of the valley due to Arizona's controversial 2010 immigration law.

According to the analysis of the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson police patrol ran 26,000 immigration checks during the 16 month period ending  on 2nd October of all of those checks. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested around 83 people during the patrolling campaign.

The law requires police, while in enforcing other laws and to question people's immigration status if they are alleged to live in the country unlawfully. It also need to checks on the immigration status arrested people before they can be free from the custody.

Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor said, "Ninety-nine-plus percent of the time our efforts were really not finding people that the Border Patrol was interested in coming to take custody of or to deport."

Most of the 26,000 checks Tucson police documented were depending on the condition the status of arrested people must be checked before being released. But, only 51 checks were completed because an officer suspected the person was in the country illegitimately.

On the other hand,  when people found someone living in the country illegally and called the  Border Patrol, agents come up very few times, often because the suspected person was not considered highly concern for deportation. Actually, border agents have to follow many federal priorities regarding when to respond and whether to take some into custody. For instance, people who have been in this country for many years and have no criminal record are low on the government's list of concerns, said authorities.

According to the investigation of Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Police Department database of its officers' immigration checks were incomplete and difficult to search. Some officers were using their mobile phones to call border agents directly due to which there is no record of every call to the border patrol. While, they have started a database of its officers' immigration checks in June 2014.

-Nandini