ICE Official: Work-Site Arrests of Illegals ‘Down From Previous Years’

Wednesday, February 03, 2010
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

David Venturella, acting director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said Tuesday that the number of illegal aliens being arrested has dropped during the first year of the Obama administration. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)

(CNSNews.com) – A top official in the Obama administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said that the move away from work-site raids has reduced the number of illegal aliens who have been arrested and led to the release of many of those who had been detained.

David Venturella, acting director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations with ICE, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, made the remarks at an event at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

“I think there have been very few operations that have generated arrests of undocumented workers,â€