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ICE Announces Immigration Arrests in Northern Virginia
Published March 23, 2011
| Associated Press
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MANASSAS, Va. – More than 160 foreign nationals -- most of them illegal immigrants with criminal records -- were arrested in northern Virginia over a three-day enforcement surge involving federal, state and local police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said Wednesday.
The enforcement sweep, conducted between Sunday and Tuesday, ensnared men and women from 32 countries, including eight people who had been convicted of sex offenses.
Morton announced the arrests at a news conference in Manassas, where political leaders have faulted ICE for failing to enforce the nation's immigration laws aggressively enough.
"We are dedicated to the removal of criminal offenders from our country," Morton said, arguing that ICE has removed more illegal immigrants from the country in the last two years than it ever had.
Morton's announcement failed to impress Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, a vocal critic of what he says is lax federal enforcement of immigration law, who called Wednesday's news conference a "dog-and-pony show."
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