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A New Removal Campaign?

By immigrationprof

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents removed more than 2,300 illegal aliens from the country in the past two weeks on 35 flights to the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia and Africa — one of the busiest periods of the year for ICE’s Office of Detention and Removal Operations. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers, who heads ICE, said 852 of those removed had criminal records, and that another 21 flights this week will take 2,087 aliens to Central America and the Caribbean, including 515 who are criminal aliens. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20061222-111820-9184r.htm

Why all of a sudden this surge of enforcement fervor?

KJ