Immigration agents arrest 45 in Colorado, Wyoming


Associated Press - January 30, 2009 6:35 PM ET

DENVER (AP) - Immigration agents say they arrested 45 people in Colorado and Wyoming who failed to obey deportation orders or didn't appear at their hearings.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday the 3-day roundup by its Fugitive Operations Team began Tuesday.

ICE says 28 of the people arrested had criminal records, including convictions for car theft, sexual assault of a child and resisting arrest. ICE says most of the people arrested had deportation orders.

The arrests were made in Denver, Greeley, Fort Collins, Longmont, Eaton, Loveland, Platteville and Montrose and in Rock Springs, Wyo.

ICE's fugitive unit in Denver arrested 571 people in 2008. Nationwide, fugitive teams arrested more than 34,100 in the same year.

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