Immigration Sweep Yields 761 Arrests

[seriousstan]

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Federal officials said Tuesday they arrested more than 750 illegal immigrants over the past week in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in what they described as one of the biggest such sweeps in U.S. history.

The weeklong series of raids in the five-county region targeted illegal immigrants who had previously been deported for crimes or had ignored final deportation orders.

The raids netted 338 illegal immigrants who were arrested at their homes and apartments and 423 who were identified in area jails since Jan. 17. Those already jailed will be transferred to federal custody when they finish serving their state sentences, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The sweep netted illegal immigrants from 14 countries in all, including Mexico, Honduras, Ukraine, India, Japan, Poland and Trinidad.

Of the 761 people arrested, more than 450 have already been deported, Kice said.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070123/D8MR6PR00.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. let's see. 761 down, 12,999,239 to go. At this rate . . . .

another 46.79 years, assuming no newbies come here.

[demosincebirth]

2. LOL!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. and they can't join haggard's church lest they breed.

oh dear.

[Bonobo]

3. How many were Al Qaeda?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. 1/3 of them held the #2 rank.

oh, of the 761? 100% of them.
even if they didn't, a couple of months in Gitmo will convince them. trust me.

[2Design]

6. and what about the white collar crimes in high places - can we export them

they are costing this country lives, money, and reputation - this is BS and the wrong focus - the corps are shipping the jobs out - this is divide and conquer

[sandnsea]

7. How many illegal employers? n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. none, They couldn't find them.

not that they looked.

besides, corpseration owners vote GOP.