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1 May 2007 |
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ICE Fugitive Operations Teams arrest 217 immigration violators
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37 criminal aliens apprehended during statewide
enforcement operation
NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) today announced the successful completion of a
three-week targeted law enforcement operation in New
Jersey that resulted in the arrest of 217 immigration
violators and alien fugitives, including 37 with
criminal records.
As part of "Operation Return to Sender," a nationwide
ICE program to reduce illegal immigration, ICE Fugitive
Operation Teams (FOTs) fanned out across the Garden
state to arrest priority criminal and fugitive aliens.
ICE has three fugitive operation teams in New Jersey.
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From April 9 to April 27, ICE officers arrested 75
fugitives.
The 142 individuals apprehended were aliens
illegally present in the United States. The individuals
arrested during the three-week statewide operation came
from the following 32 countries:
Brazil, Chile, China,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Mexico,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Morocco,
Nepal, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Poland,
Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad, Uruguay, and
Yugoslavia.
"For ICE, removing criminal and fugitive aliens from our
streets and neighborhoods is a agency-wide initiative
that improves our national security and combats the rise
in local crime rates," said acting field office director
Bartolome Rodriguez, who leads ICE's detention and
removal efforts in Newark.
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Operations Team apprehended 217 immigration
violators including 37 criminal aliens in
statewide enforcement operation in New Jersey. |
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"Our Fugitive Operation Teams
work closely with local law enforcement partners
throughout the year identifying dangerous criminal
aliens and placing them in removal proceedings."
Criminal convictions among those arrested include sexual
assault, child abuse, domestic violence, theft, criminal
mischief, weapons charges, counterfeit credit cards,
identity theft, burglary, possession of drugs with the
intent to distribute, terroristic threats, patronizing
prostitution, aggravated assault, and driving under the
influence. Highlighted arrests include:
The subjects became fugitives when they defied an order
from a federal immigration judge and failed to leave the
United States. All of the fugitives had the opportunity
for full due process under the law. The fugitives
arrested will remain in ICE custody pending their final
removal from the country. The other individuals arrested
have been placed in immigration removal proceedings.
The New Jersey operation is part of the nationwide
interior immigration enforcement strategy announced in
2005 by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and
ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers. A critical
element of that strategy is to identify, locate and
remove criminal aliens, fugitives, and other immigration
violators from the United States.
The interior enforcement strategy is part of the
Department of Homeland Security's broader Secure Border
Initiative (SBI), a multi-year plan to secure America's
borders and reduce illegal migration. Those efforts are
focused on gaining operational control of the nation's
borders through the deployment of additional personnel
and technology, while re-engineering the detention and
removal system to ensure that illegal aliens are quickly
removed from the country.
Since May 26, 2006, New Jersey's Operation Return to
Sender has resulted in the arrest of over 1,585
immigration violators, including 253 criminal aliens.
(ICE)
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