Thread: MA: Immigration raid nets 36 arrests

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Immigration raid nets 36 arrests
By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff

Thirty-six Worcester-area immigrants have been arrested and charged with being in the country illegally, including 17 convicted of crimes including rape of a child, assault and battery on a child, and failure to register as a sex offender, federal immigration authorities said today.

All face court hearings that could lead to deportation.

Those arrested came from Albania, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uruguay, and Thailand, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

They include 14 lawful permanent residents of the US who had been convicted of crimes, 16 immigrants who had flouted deportation orders, two immigrants who reentered the country after being deported, and four immigrants charged with being in the country illegally, three of whom had been convicted of crimes, officials said.

The immigrants were arrested between June 11 and June 22, officials said, and had been living in Ashburnham, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Lowell, Milford, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Uxbridge, Whitinsville, and Worcester.

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Thirty-six Worcester-area immigrants have been arrested and charged with being in the country illegally, including 17 convicted of crimes including rape of a child, assault and battery on a child, and failure to register as a sex offender, federal immigration authorities said today.

Can anyone explain to me why those 17 individuals convicted of crimes weren't deported after their prison sentence? As for the one who failed to register as a sex offender - why was he released back into the general population with the ability to register as a sex offender? All of these folks should have been deported, even the ones that were legal green card holders!