Northern VA Immigration Sweep Nets 166
In a three-day sweep by federal and local law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia this week, 130 immigrants with prior convictions were taken into custody.
In addition, police and federal agents also picked up eight fugitives and 25 people who already faced immigration violations, including three who had been deported.
Some of those picked up had been convicted of crimes such as rape, assault, theft, and drug possession, but were released after serving their sentences before immigration officials launched programs to check on and detain illegal immigrants.
Of those arrested, 64 were in the country legally with work permits or green card and have now lost that privilege due to committing crimes of “moral turpitude” or receiving sentences of a year or more.
The 163 people swept up came from 32 different countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and Africa.
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