ICE may widen net in undocumented immigrant arrests
Feb. 17, 2017
Updated 10:59 p.m.
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Foreign nationals are arrested Feb. 7 during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (File photo by Charles Reed, AP) ,
By GRACE WYLER / STAFF WRITER
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will use a much wider net to arrest undocumented immigrants, doing away with the Obama administration’s priorities that had shielded millions of people living in the U.S. illegally, lawmakers said Friday.
According to Democrats who met with ICE officials Thursday night, the agency said that it will continue to target immigrants with criminal convictions, but that agents will now be free to arrest anyone else they encounter who is in the United States illegally, doing away with Obama administration priorities that shielded millions without criminal records from deportation.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ice-744431-immigrants-immigration.html
