The Dragnet for “Fugitive Aliens”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unleashed a national dragnet that is hunting down “fugitive aliens.” DHS has 75 Fugitive Operations Teams that are mounting raids across the country. But only a small number of these arrested fugitives are actual criminals, and some of the immigrants that are handcuffed and shackled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents. “*

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