Friday, June 29, 2007

Secure Fence Act of 2006

Secure Fence Act of 2006
Mandated 854 miles of border fence.

DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff last week said he expects 150 miles completed by the end of September. According to ICE worksite enforcement data, there have been 613 criminal arrests and 3,226 administrative arrests FY 2007 through May.

According to ICE, it has tripled its Fugitive Operations Teams to 61 today, on target for 75 by the end of FY 2007. In FY 2006, ICE apprehended 17,817, fugitive aliens. This year, it is on track to double that.

In May and June, according to ICE's Deportable Alien Control System (DACS), there were 632,189 fugitive aliens in the United States.

see Lou Dobbs at.........

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/29/dobbs.ice/index.html