INS doesn't exist anymore. The agency was split up into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, criminal investigators) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP, inspectors) as part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The article doesn't say it, but I'm sure that they were ICE agents doing the raid.
I'm equally sure that these two did *something* to attract ICE's attention. What were they involved in when they left South Korea?
ICE is focusing its enforcement efforts on illegal immigrants that fall into two broad categories: criminals and absconders. Lots of illegals have been convicted of violent crimes and then released back into America. Don't hold me to this number but I think there are about 175,000 of these. The remainder of the 465,000 people that ICE is trying to round up are absconders who are illegal immigrants that have skipped court dates which results in a deportation order or gone to court and been ordered to be deported but had failed to leave.
It sounds like this family falls into the absconder category. They missed some court dates back in 1996 which may or mayn't have been an honest mistake. It sounds like they fraudulently entered America on a student visa when they did not really intend on going to school.
I would have a lot more sympathy for them if during the last 9 years they had made some effort to rectify this situation. There are going to be some good people and some not so good people that get caught up as absconders but if court orders are not obeyed then we have chaos.
Yeah, they did "do something" Kreskin.
Mrs. Jung was a stay at home mom and a Christian school aid instead of being "employed" as they had stated on one damned form or another (as I understand it). I'll post other articles to verify if I can find them.
What were they involved in when they left South Korea?
I believe it was homesickness!
Have a cynical day.
Thanks for reading the whole article anyway.