Of those, 62,000 people had committed, at some point during their residence in the United States, one of the crimes that are grounds for deportation. The agency said that about half of those deported had been convicted on drug charges. Most of the others had been convicted of assault, burglary or violating immigration laws. Almost 115,000 people were deported or turned away because they were in the country illegally or had tried to enter with false documents.