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Associated Press - March 28, 2008 5:55 PM ET

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official says agents have arrested 25 illegal immigrants in a 2-day operation along the Interstate 80 corridor.

Of those arrested on Wednesday and Thursday, 19 are considered fugitives, meaning they had defied a judge's final order to leave the country and were targeted in the operation.

ICE spokesman Tim Counts says the other six are illegal immigrants who will appear before an immigration judge.

Counts says the arrests were made in homes, at businesses and other places.

Of those arrested, 15 are from Guatemala, eight are from Mexico, one is from El Salvador and one is from Iran.

Five arrestees had criminal convictions other than immigration violations.

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