ICE nets more than 30,000 immigration fugitives in fiscal year
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« on: December 04, 2007, 07:41:46 PM »

Good - send 'em back, not to Iraq!

ICE nets more than 30,000 immigration fugitives in fiscal year

DALLAS — Federal agents who track down fugitive illegal immigrants arrested more than 30,000 people nationally in fiscal year 2007, nearly double the previous year, officials said Tuesday.

The number of arrests more than doubled to 1,635 in North Texas and Oklahoma. In South Texas, San Antonio-based agents arrested 1,326 fugitives, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

There were more than 30,408 arrests nationally in fiscal 2007, which ended Sept. 30, compared to 15,462 last year, ICE said.

Agents on the fugitive operations teams focus on finding people who haven't appeared for immigration hearings, or who stayed in the country after being ordered to leave by an immigration judge. Teams also prioritize cases, looking for those who have criminal records or are considered a threat to national security, ICE officials said.

"They are specifically targeting individuals," said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok. "On occassion, they'll conduct multi-day operations in a specific geographic region."

Out of the 1,635 arrested by the Dallas and Oklahoma City teams in fiscal 2007, 699 were fugitives and 168 had criminal convictions. The majority have since been removed to their countries of origin, ICE said in a release. There were 606 arrests regionally last year.

Better coordination and information sharing with state and local law enforcement helped bolster arrests of immigration fugitives. Administrative warrants for fugitive immigrants now turn up when local authorities run a check on the National Crime Information Center's database, said Tina Tucker, acting director of the ICE's Dallas field office.

The agency also credited additional teams deployed around the country for the increased arrests. ICE now has 75 fugitive operations teams, up from 52 in fiscal year 2006.

Two of the teams are based in Dallas and one in Oklahoma City. One of the Dallas teams and the Oklahoma City team were among the latest additions, Tucker said.

ICE also attributes the boost in arrests to its Fugitive Operations Support Center in Vermont. The center helps gather and analyze information on fugitive cases across the country.

Since opening last year, it has passed on more than 150,000 leads to ICE agents, the agency said.

ICE officials said the backlog of fugitives was down by 38,000 to 595,000 for the new fiscal year.
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 12:15:11 AM »

We need to increase that number by a factor of 10.
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2007, 12:23:45 AM »

I'd rather kick you two of the country. Wink
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2007, 12:37:02 AM »

Given that the number of total illegal immigrants is - what - 10,000,000, that isn't exactly a very impressive number.
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2007, 12:43:50 AM »

Ah, a full .25% of all illegal immigrants. At this rate, we'll have them all rounded up and deported in 400 years.

Anyway, more than 30,000 illegals probably entered the United States in the last fiscal year anyway, so it's not like anything's been about anything.
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2007, 01:12:41 AM »

Ah, a full .25% of all illegal immigrants. At this rate, we'll have them all rounded up and deported in 400 years.

Anyway, more than 30,000 illegals probably entered the United States in the last fiscal year anyway, so it's not like anything's been about anything.

way more than 30,000

I dont really see the point of all this as the amount of law enforcement that would be needed would be astronomical and the effects it would have on the economy would be catashrophic.
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2007, 03:10:35 AM »

We need to increase that number by a factor of 10.

That's it?  Tongue
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2007, 11:24:39 AM »

Ah, a full .25% of all illegal immigrants. At this rate, we'll have them all rounded up and deported in 400 years.

Anyway, more than 30,000 illegals probably entered the United States in the last fiscal year anyway, so it's not like anything's been about anything.

way more than 30,000

I dont really see the point of all this as the amount of law enforcement that would be needed would be astronomical and the effects it would have on the economy would be catashrophic.

From the way I read the article, this is just those that were wanted by the court for failing to show up to their deportation hearings, and doesn't include all the illegal aliens captured during raids or attempting to cross the border.  Of course, this statistic wouldn't be necessary if we had courts that meets daily to review the cases and deports the illegals as they are caught, rather than trusting them to return in 3 months for a hearing.
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