Record number of immigration arrests
Putting more agents on Southland streets to carry out sweeps, immigration officials said Friday that they have made a record number of arrests this year of criminal immigrants and those who ignored deportation orders. Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.
Nearly 2,700 were arrested during raids from the San Fernando Valley to San Bernardino during the year ending Sept. 30 - a 63 percent increase over the previous year.
"In the past, there wasn't a concerted effort to identify and locate people," said Jim Hayes, Los Angeles field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removal operation. "That has changed."
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