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Customs Jails 1,000 Suspected Gang Members
11 in D.C. Area Arrested; MS-13 Is a Main Target

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 2, 2005; Page A02

Federal immigration and customs officers have arrested more than 1,000 suspected gang members and associates so far this year as part of a nationwide campaign aimed at deporting illegal immigrants with suspected ties to violent criminal organizations, officials said yesterday.

Much like similar efforts after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to target suspected terrorist sympathizers, the Department of Homeland Security's anti-gang program seeks to use immigration laws to remove many alleged gang members from the country rather than pursue them through U.S. criminal courts, officials said.


The campaign, dubbed Operation Community Shield and overseen by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, has resulted in arrests of 1,057 alleged gang members over the past five months -- including 582 suspects apprehended during a concerted push in the last two weeks of July. Eleven of the suspects were arrested in the Washington area, officials said.


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[CindyDawg]

How many have been deported and rearrested?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The campaign, dubbed Operation Community Shield and overseen by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, has resulted in arrests of 1,057 alleged gang members over the past five months -- including 582 suspects apprehended during a concerted push in the last two weeks of July. Eleven of the suspects were arrested in the Washington area, officials said.

Now how about that!

[OKIEDOC]

So whats going to keep them from just walking across the border and meeting their friends.

The story sounds good but as long as the border is open like the sluice gate on a dam whats going to keep out the worst criminals.