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February 6, 2009

Study: Most Arrests in Immigrant Crackdown Nab Innocents
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Newly released figures show 73 percent of arrests made under a federal
program to target fugitive immigrants nabbed people who didn’t have
criminal records. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s National
Fugitive Operations Program was billed as an effort to target immigrants
posing threats to national safety. But according to the Migration Policy
Institute, just 18 percent of the nearly 90,000 arrested had criminal
records. 34 percent had no outstanding deportation orders but were
arrested anyway.



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