U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say the number of illegal immigrants removed from Oklahoma and the Dallas area has increased by 21 percent.ICE spokesman Tim Counts says 16,370 people were deported during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
That's up from 13,544 deportations during the previous fiscal year.
Counts says 221,000 illegal immigrants have been found in jails in the U.S. compared with 161,000 in the previous year.
He says task forces for border security and training for local law enforcement agencies are helping identify more illegal immigrants.
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This is good news. I do find it odd, however, that Counts would claim that the police departments needed "training," to identify illegal aliens.
Seriously?!
The problem has never been "training." It has been that the police did not have support at the state and federal level to enforce the law, and in many cases were actually instructed NOT to enforce immigration law.
Thanks to Randy Terrill, and HB 1804, that is changing.
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