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More than 1,100 arrested in Cal immigration sweep

Sept. 29, 2008, 1:29PM
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Federal immigration authorities say more than 1,150 people have been arrested in a special three-week sweep in California.

The sweep targeted those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Monday that more than 400 of those arrested were from Los Angeles and several Southern California counties.

ICE teams from San Francisco and San Diego also participated in

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Sep 29, 2:57 PM EDT


More than 1,100 arrested in Cal immigration sweep






SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Federal immigration authorities said Monday they arrested more than 1,150 people in a three-week enforcement action in California.

The sweep targeted immigration violators including those who have ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said it was the largest such action by fugitive enforcement teams in California since the squads were formed in 2003.

Kice said of the 1,157 immigrants arrested statewide, 595 had outstanding deportation orders and 346 had prior criminal convictions. Those arrested were from 34 countries, she said.

The raids, which ended Saturday, produced 436 arrests in the San Francisco area, 420 in the Los Angeles area and 301 in the San Diego area.

In recent years, ICE has heightened enforcement at factories, offices and homes. One of its major pushes has been to target illegal immigrants who have flouted deportation orders.

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This is great news! I feel like Im on a roller coaster ride with all the wild news going on today!

The sweep targeted those who ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported.


Once again, why are we giving them the opportunity to ignore deportation orders? Why aren't they loaded up and returned immediately.

Is our government gone completely insane or do they think we are just dumb.

They are wasting resources rounding up the same ones time after time. Let's put the fear of 'Whomever' in them and send them on their way immediately. Tell them if they are caught again, will be dealt with harshly.

Congradulations sick-n-tired they cleaned up socal alittle bit maybe we could send some callifornia politicians on the bus out of the country along with those picked up.

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ICE raids net 300 in San Diego, Imperial counties


By Debbi Baker


1:22 p.m. September 29, 2008

SAN DIEGO – A sweep targeting illegal immigrants led to the arrest of more than 300 people – including at least 125 with criminal histories – in San Diego and Imperial counties. The arrests were part of a statewide operation that netted more than 1,000 arrests, officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday.
At least 102 of the 267 men and 34 women taken into custody in the two counties had been previously deported and returned or ignored court orders to leave the country, said ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack.



AdvertisementThe arrests were the result of a three-week operation that ended last week. It was coordinated between the agency's fugitive operation teams and spearheaded by agents in San Diego, Mack said.
The agency reported a total of 1,157 arrests on a myriad of charges, including sexual assault, narcotics and voluntary manslaughter, with at least one person accused of making a terrorist threat, Mack said.

The majority of the arrests locally were made in San Diego, where 248 people were picked up, while 35 more were located in North County and 18 were taken into custody in El Centro, the spokeswoman said.

Mack said the coordinated effort was part of an ongoing operation to target specific areas and track fugitive immigrants who seldom have a permanent address and are difficult to pin down.

“The deployment of more fugitive operations teams, together with enhancements in our ability to track leads in these cases, have resulted in the arrest of record numbers of immigration fugitives this year and we expect that trend to continue,â€

get ready for the wave of SOB stories to follow this...

1,157 arrested in Calif. immigration sweep

People from 34 countries nabbed in raids in past three weeks

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