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Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: February 3, 2009 NY Times The raids on homes around the country were billed as carefully planned hunts for dangerous immigrant fugitives, and given catchy names like Operation Return to Sender. And they garnered bigger increases in money and staff from Congress than any other program run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even as complaints grew that teams of armed agents were entering homes indiscriminately. But in fact, beginning in 2006, the program was no longer what was being advertised. Federal immigration officials had repeatedly told Congress that among more than half a million immigrants with outstanding deportation orders, they would concentrate on rounding up the most threatening ? criminals and terrorism suspects...continue to full post

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