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"16 illegals caught in raids over fake papers"
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 4, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents yesterday arrested 16 persons in raids on a suspected counterfeit document ring that operated "open-air markets" in Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood and in Hyattsville.
ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said the agents discovered and seized phony Social Security cards, laminating machines, typewriters and more than 20 bags of "documentary evidence" during raids at five locations. All of those arrested were identified as illegal aliens."
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"Nabbing illegals"
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
August 3, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Since there are about 5,000 members of the murderous Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang in the Washington area, it's hard to get too excited about the apprehension of 11 in the past few weeks. Still, the announcement Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested more than 1,000 gang members nationwide so far this year is good news.
Originally intended to dismantle only the MS-13 gang, ICE's anti-gang initiative, Operation Community Shield, extended its mission in May to track more than 80 violent street gangs in 30 states. Almost all of these gangs consist of illegal aliens from Central and Latin American, though a few, like the Asian Boyz and the Jamaican Posse, reveal that the problem is global. Of the 1,000 gang members who have been arrested this year, 90 percent have been illegal aliens. Suspects were caught in nearly every major U.S. city, as well as in the rural areas of Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. "We're just getting started," said Marcy Forman, ICE's director of investigations. Let's hope so. Street gangs now account for 93 percent of all homicides in which organized crime is the suspected cause, according to the FBI."