BY MIKE CETERA
Good news for people who want to see illegal immigrants deported: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says it has stepped up efforts to arrest gang members on immigration charges.
See the USA Today report here; the agency news release here; and the agency's fact sheet on its operations here.
According to the agency, officials first established its Fugitive Operations Teams in 2003 to remove illegal immigrants from the country "who have failed to depart the United States based upon a final order of removal, deportation or exclusion; or who has failed to report to a Detention and Removal Officer after receiving notice to do so."
The National Fugitive Operations Program is responsible for reducing the fugitive alien population in the United States. ICE’s databases show the targeted enforcement strategy is paying off. Earlier this year, the nation’s fugitive alien population declined for the first time. The estimated number of immigration fugitives in the United States on September 30, 2007 was just under 595,000, a one-year decrease of more than 37,000.
ICE previously has rounded up gang members in Aurora.
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