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Illegal immigration suspected

May 13, 2006

In a raid on three houses Friday in southwest Detroit, federal agents arrested 17 immigrants suspected of living in the country illegally, authorities said.

Officers with the fugitive operations team of Immigration Customs and Enforcement had set out to find three immigrants who had failed to heed deportation orders, said Michael Keegan, a spokesman for the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Agents went to three locations, looking for the men. At one site, they found one of the men, an immigrant previously convicted of auto theft, Keegan said.

At a second one, they couldn't find their target, but arrested other people who were living in the country without proper documentation, he said.

In the third location, agents couldn't find their target and didn't arrest anyone.

By Niraj Warikoo

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