No longer rounding up just fugitive immigrants

Los Angeles Times by Anna Gorman | Feb. 5, 2009 (News Report)

And year after year, the Department of Homeland Security has received congressional support and funds to expand the program.

But new data released Wednesday showed that 73% of the nearly 97,000 people arrested by the fugitive operations teams between 2003 and early 2008 did not have criminal records, according to a report by the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. Full Story »

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 by Mike LaBonte - Feb. 8, 2009

This summarizes an institute report, and gives the U.S. government a fair chance to respond. Plenty of facts and evidence. The viewpoints are good, although some of the arrested would have been a good addition. This is the only story I can find so far covering that report.

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