Every day in Dallas, a bus loaded with Mexican deportees pulls out of a Homeland Security Department office near an interstate highway. Some days, there are two buses.It's a get-tough testament to the federal crackdown against illegal immigrants – enforcement unseen in decades in the U.S.
"We are definitely doing all we can to tackle illegal immigration," said Nuria Prendes, head of regional detention and removal operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas since 2003.
Detention and removal operations took more than 40 percent of ICE's $4.7 billion budget last fiscal year.
And Ms. Prendes is part of a new emphasis on what the law enforcement agency calls fugitive operations – that is, the removal of illegal immigrants who have outstanding deportation or exclusion orders. In October 2006, there were nearly 624,000 persons who fit ICE's profile of a fugitive, according to federal audits done by the Office of Inspector General for the Homeland Security Department.
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2007-12-03
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