US Immigration In Miami Getting Serious; Huge Dragnet Sweeps Up 332 Undocumented Foreign Nationals

In what may be the largest Florida immigration roundup in recent years, U.S. officials arrested hundreds of foreign nationals in the area.
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By JENNIFER LEBOVICH
jlebovich at MiamiHerald.com
More than 300 foreign nationals accused of evading deportation and violating other immigration laws were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in South Florida during a two-week stretch, possibly the agency's largest roundup in Florida.

The 332 arrested, from 15 different countries, were brought in during a ''targeted enforcement'' operation by officers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, Barbara Gonzalez, an ICE spokeswoman in Miami, said Sunday.

It may be the largest roundup in Florida since the agency was created in March 2003 when the functions of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs Service were folded into the Department of Homeland Security.

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By miamimike on Apr 7, 2008, 13:09 in Off Topic.

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