Immigration raid nets 15 in Greenfield
September 12, 2008
By SUNITA VIJAYAN
The Salinas Californian
An immigration sweep in a south Monterey County city Thursday netted the arrest of 15 residents, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said this afternoon.
Lori Haley, a spokeswoman, said a fugitive operation team from the department received tips and proceeded with the operation to raid homes across the Greenfield area.
The 15 arrested included 10 men and five women, Haley said. All were from Mexico. Six were identified as fugitives — foreign nationals who specifically failed to comply with orders for deportation by U.S. immigration courts.
She said one of the people arrested had a criminal record. “The rest were identified as being in the country illegally,” Haley said.
All but one of the 15 people arrested have been deported back to Mexico.In the past 11 months of this fiscal year, which began in October, ICE fugitive operations teams have arrested more than 30,000 people nationwide.
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