Nantucket raids net 18 (illegal!) immigrants

The Cape Cod Times ^ | 6/21/07 | Patrick Cassidy

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NANTUCKET — In response to a request from local police, federal immigration agents conducted a series of early morning raids yesterday searching for illegal immigrants on a list of about 26 "hard targets," most of whom had committed crimes on the island, the Nantucket police said. "This was not a roundup of people here illegally," Police Chief William Pittman said. Of the 18 people arrested, 16 had criminal histories and six had been ordered removed from the country by an immigration judge, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Two others were picked up because they were in the country illegally.

The raids occurred in several neighborhoods across the island, and the detainees were taken to Woods Hole on a Coast Guard cutter after being processed at the Nantucket police station. From Woods Hole, the detainees will be moved to state and county detention centers before removal from the country or an appearance before an immigration judge in Boston, ICE spokeswoman Paula Grenier said.

In the group were 15 men and three women from seven different countries, Grenier said. Because the detainees were arrested on administrative charges, their names will not be released, she said.

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Only 29,999,982 to go !!!

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