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Statewide immigration raids result in 1,157 arrests
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by Dave Keating | September 30, 2008 at 02:20 am
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A massive coordinated series of raids in California has arrested more than 1,150 illegal immigrants. The people arrested were those that had received deportation orders and not left the country.
Federal immigration agents arrested more than 1,150 people in the largest collective sweep by specialized enforcement teams in California, authorities said today.
The sweep targeted those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the United States illegally after being deported, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
The raids, which ended Saturday, produced 436 arrests in the San Francisco area, 420 in the Los Angeles area and 301 in the San Diego area.
Of the 1,157 illegal immigrants arrested statewide, 595 had outstanding deportation orders and 346 had prior criminal convictions, Kice said. Those arrested come from 34 countries.
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at 03:21 on September 30th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 03:58 on September 30th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:09 on September 30th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Am I being paranoid by thinking that this is a pre-election clean-up, so someone at the customs department can crow about their achievements on behalf on the Republicans?
at 04:13 on September 30th, 2008
What were the 34 countries these people were from?
at 05:03 on September 30th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:33 on September 30th, 2008
at 11:07 on October 6th, 2008
PLEASE FREE THE WORLD OF THESE ILLEGALS......FOR THOSE WHO CRY IN THEIR SUPPORT CLAIMING THAT THEY NEED A SECOND CHANCE TO START A NEW LIVING: KEEP IN MIND NOT ALL ARE ESCAPING THEIR COUNTRY FOR A BETTER LIFE; THEY ARE TO RUNNING FROM CRIMES THEY MAY HAVE COMMITTED.