Federal immigration officials vowed Aug. 22 to intensify efforts to track down illegal immigrants after scrapping a trial "self-deportation" program that attracted only eight volunteers.
Though the 2 1/2-week effort produced few volunteer deportees among illegal immigrants who are under court orders to leave the country, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said his agency will arrest more of them this year than last - and still more next year as more agents are assigned.
Yesterday ICE raided a manufacturing plant in Mississippi and detained 595 workers from Brazil, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Peru. The investigation into the workers had apparently been underway for more than a year, after ICE was tipped off by a union official connected to the Howard Industries plant. Of the 595 workers, about 475 were sent to an ICE processing facility, about 20 minors were sent to a refugee facility and the other 100 were fitted with electronic monitoring bracelets and released.
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