Federal sweep targeting illegal immigrants snares 1,150 statewide
In the biggest action of its kind, federal immigration agents have arrested more than 1,150 people statewide in raids targeting illegal immigrants who ignored deportation orders.
The 3-week sweep, which ended Saturday, netted 420 people in Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange counties. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not break down arrests by county.
The arrests are the latest part of a crackdown the government launched in 2003 against illegal immigrants who violate deportation orders or similar mandates. Nationwide, arrests of “immigration fugitives” have surged seventeenfold in the past five years. More than 30,000 people were apprehended in the crackdown in fiscal year 2007, almost 2,500 in the four-county Los Angeles area.
Eric Saldana, assistant director of ICE’s Los Angeles field office and former head of a ICE fugitive operations team, said the sweep is a warning to other illegal immigrants.
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Federal sweep targeting illegal immigrants snares 1,150 statewide
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