Thread: Feds To Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants In NW

Feds To Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants In NW


By Austin Jenkins

OLYMPIA, WA 2007-05-30 Washington, D.C. is sending more federal immigration agents to the Northwest. Their job is to deport undocumented immigrants who've had a run-in with the law. Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE for short - recently got a $30-million budget increase to hire more deportation officers.

Some of those officers -- the agency won't say how many -- are headed to the Northwest. Specifically Seattle, Portland and Yakima. Medford already has a deportation office.

Lorie Dankers, an ICE spokeswoman, says the officers will target illegal immigrants who've broken the law.

Lorie Dankers: "ICE deportation officers will go into the jails and actually when those individuals are done serving their time for their criminal conviction, they'll come into ICE custody and therefore then what we will do is secure a final order of removal for them once their sentence is done and they would be removed from the country."

Yakima will also get a new fugitive team.

This group of agents will track down immigrants who were supposed to leave the country, but haven't.

Dankers says the focus will be on those with criminal records.

In 2006, more than 4500 illegal immigrants were deported the Northwest region.

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Thanks for posting this Jean. I saw this a few days ago in The Oregonian and noted to myself to cut and paste it to ALIPAC, and then the crazy week got the better of me (todays event was 13 year old son having a bike crash down a steep hill with bad brakes, worthy of an emergency room visit!).

I was thinking when I saw this article, this is why my complex has been so quiet!

I am already prepared to pay more for my Yakima Valley vegetables this year, because I'm sure this will make the costs go higher. Believe me, you won't hear me whining about the price. It's less than paying $2.5 trillion.

Lorie Dankers, an ICE spokeswoman, says the officers will target illegal immigrants who've broken the law.

Didn't that happen the second they hit American soil???

No matter what ICE says, I believe these reports are exactly why it has suddenly gotten so quiet around here. In fact the neighbors have been downright friendly lately. No, I am not jesting, they have been smiling at us and polite, (mod edit)