Feds step up efforts to deport Somalis on Minnesota criminal court rolls
Article by: MARK BRUNSWICK , Star Tribune
Updated: September 21, 2013 - 10:51 PM
For Somalis who have broken the law, deportation to a volatile homeland is now a real possibility.
The federal government is engaging in an aggressive effort to deport Somali immigrants who run afoul of U.S. law, after refraining for years from shipping people back to a country wracked by civil war and lacking a functioning government.
The policy change affects more than 3,100 Somali nationals who have received final orders for removal from the United States since 2001, either because of violations of immigration law or criminal convictions. That includes 435 people who were ordered removed from the immigration court in Bloomington, representing 13 percent of all such Somali cases in the country’s 52 immigration courts.
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