Eagle Co. lets illegal immigrants go
Deputies: Federal agency failed to pick them up
Steve Lynn
Vail correspondent
Aspen, CO Colorado
November 21, 2007

EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. — More than two dozen illegal immigrants have been let go since Friday because federal immigration agents failed to respond to calls to pick them up, Eagle County sheriff’s deputies said.

Eagle County sheriff’s deputies talked to two vans of illegal immigrants Friday and another van was pulled over Sunday on Interstate 70. The majority of the people, who said they were illegal immigrants, were let go after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement either said the agency was not available or did not respond to calls to pick them up, sheriff’s deputies said.

Immigration and Customs had “no such informationâ€