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ICE raids mostly nab non-criminals, files show

View the article here | eAdvocate Article So in other words, they bloated statistics and numbers, to attempt to justify their jobs! 02/04/2009 By SUSAN CARROLL Program was supposed to target dangerous fugitives An Immigration and Customs Enforcement program designed to target the most dangerous immigration fugitives has swept up mostly non-criminals in recent years, newly released documents show. The National Fugitive Operations Program, created in 2003 with the mission of locating and deporting fugitives who are national security or public safety threats, resulted in the arrests of more than 62,000 people through the end of the 2007 fiscal year. Of those arrests, roughly 18 percent involved fugitive immigrants with criminal records, according to a report released Wednesday by the Migration Policy Institute (PDF), a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D...continue to full post

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