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Immigration Sweep Nets 109 People
Latest Effort Centers In Sacramento Area

POSTED: 11:19 am PDT September 25, 2006
UPDATED: 12:23 pm PDT September 25, 2006

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- More than 100 people accused of immigration violations were arrested in the Sacramento area last week, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

The 109 arrests -- which centered in and around Sacramento, Lodi and Stockton -- were part of Operation Return to Sender, an ongoing effort targeting alleged criminal illegal immigrants, foreign nationals with final orders of deportation and other suspected immigration violators, ICE officials said.

As of Monday, 98 of the foreign nationals taken into custody during this latest operation had been removed from the country, ICE said. The remaining suspected violators are in ICE custody and are awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.

The majority of the alleged illegal immigrants taken into custody are from Mexico, but the group also included alleged immigration violators from El Salvador, Fiji and the Philippines.