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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 10, 2017, 12:51:44 pm
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Enforcement and Removal
12/08/2017
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ICE arrests 27 in western Michigan operation targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and immigration violators
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Mexican national in the country illegally, who has a prior conviction for assault on a law officer, is among 27 foreign nationals taken into custody during a four-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week in western Michigan, targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and other immigration violators.
Of those arrested during the operation, which was spearheaded by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), 21, or more than 80 percent, had prior criminal convictions in addition to their immigration violations.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-27-western-michigan-operation-targeting-criminal-aliens-illegal-re#wcm-survey-target-id (https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-27-western-michigan-operation-targeting-criminal-aliens-illegal-re#wcm-survey-target-id)