Immigration holds placed on more SoCal inmates

ASSOCIATED PRESS

11:31 a.m. November 6, 2008

LOS ANGELES – Federal immigration officials have flagged more than 35,000 inmates in Southern California for deportation during the last fiscal year, up 12 percent from a year earlier.
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement says the increase stems from programs that have federal agents train sheriff's personnel in how to determine an inmate's immigration status. Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties all have such programs.

ICE said on Thursday that a seven-county area spanning much of Southern California accounted for roughly 17 percent of the 221,000 immigration holds placed on inmates across the country during the fiscal year that ended in September

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