US tackles backlog of fugitive aliens
Tagged: deportationPosted on: May 7th, 2007“At 2:10 a.m., a fleet of dark sport utility vehicles surged from a garage beneath a federal building in Virginia, carrying a raiding party of flak-jacketed immigration agents.
Their quarry: illegal immigrants who have ignored and evaded deportation orders. Called “fugitive aliens” or “alien absconders,” they have nearly doubled in number since 2001, now totaling more than 636,000.
The operation was part of a stepped-up national effort that has increased the number of fugitive arrests from 1,560 in 2003 to a projected 16,000 this year, US immigration officials said.”
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