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OvrAndOvrAgn
10-23-2008, 08:24 PM
(This is only part of what it says)

Each day at America’s ports of entry U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers inspect more than 1.1 million travelers, including 340,000 vehicles and over 85,000 shipments of goods approved for entry; process more than 70,000 truck, rail and sea containers; collect more than $88 million in fees, duties, and tariffs; seize more than 5,500 pounds in illegal narcotics; and intercept more than 4,400 agricultural items and pests at ports of entry.

Interior Enforcement;
In Fiscal Year 2007, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 3,563 gang members and their associates. This includes 1,489 criminal arrests.
Under Operation Community Shield ICE has arrested more than 11,000 members and associates of approximately 890 different gangs. Of those apprehended so far in FY 2008, 1,654 have been charged criminally and 2,211 have been charged with immigration violations and processed for removal.
The Secure Communities plan is not just about immigration enforcement – it’s about improving public safety. As a part of Secure Communities, the ICE Criminal Alien Program (CAP) prioritizes and identifies removable criminal aliens based on their threat to the public safety and before they are released into the community.
ICE has expanded its CAP to identify incarcerated criminal aliens. In Fiscal Year 2008, ICE identified for removal more than 221,000 criminals who were incarcerated in federal, state and local facilities.
ICE established Fugitive Operations teams five years ago, and today they number over 100. ICE has eliminated more than 102,000 cases from the fugitive alien backlog in FY 2007 and over 95,000 cases in FY 2008. The net effect has been a nearly 12 percent reduction in the fugitive case backlog, over these two years (from 632,726 to 557,762 presently). Finally, Fugitive Operations Teams made nearly 34,000 arrests so far in 2008, exceeding the number of total arrests through this program in FY 2007.
ICE continues to increase worksite enforcement operations. So Far in FY 2008, ICE made 1,101 criminal arrests and 5,173 administrative arrests.
In Fiscal Year 2007, DHS obtained nearly $19 million in criminal fines, restitutions and civil judgments as a result of worksite enforcement.
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