Friday, July 20, 2007
Immigration raids result in 274 arrests in Dallas-Fort Worth
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents went nuts with a week-long series of raids in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that resulted in the arrests of 274 illegal immigrants.
It was a criminal-justice free-for-all with police on board from Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Farmers Branch, Carrollton, and Blue Mound, not to mention the Dallas County constable. Whee.
Of the 274, 99 had criminal convictions, so the feds congratulated themselves for removing "threats to public safety." According to this AP story, most of the arrests took place at homes, and some weren't targets but just happened to be found in said homes and also to be illegal. The 274 broke down thusly: 233 men, 28 women, and 13 children.
Half have already been shipped back to Mexico; others came from Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nigeria, Romania, and South Korea.
Posted by T.G.
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Comments
terryorze Anonymous
Well there was no time for a trial. How do they know any of these people did anything illegal? Just arrest and deport. It is that easy?
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Tejun Anonymous
Good for us. Good for DFW. I don't wanna lose my welfare check to criminals.
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Tejun Anonymous
showing up is illegal.
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