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.
Study: Most Arrests in Immigrant Crackdown Nab Innocents
HeadlineFeb 06, 2009