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133 arrested; judge orders deportation
Friday, January 19, 2007
The Grand Rapids Press

GRAND RAPIDS -- An 18-year-old Latin Kings gang member and a 30-year-old Chinese native ordered out of the country in 1993 were among the 133 people arrested in Grand Rapids in a five-day federal immigration sweep called "Operation Return to Sender."

Fugitive teams from the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement, or ICE, division of Homeland Security hit West Michigan last week, looking for immigration status violators and criminal and fugitive aliens, said enforcement spokesman Greg Palmore.

Those arrested have had their day in court and were ordered deported by an immigration judge, said Adrian Macias, field office director of the ICE detention and removal office in Detroit.

"Each alien was ordered to leave the U.S. on the judge's terms. Now they face deportation on ICE's," Macias said

He said 15 of the 133 arrested had criminal records, with crimes ranging from arson to kidnapping.

Two of those arrested were street gang members for the Latin Kings and Sur 13, and 38 were fugitive aliens who had been issued final removal orders by a judge but failed to comply.

Those arrested came from China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, India, Mexico and Peru.