Officials arrest 36 for immigration violations in Minnesota and S.D.

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | March 3, 2008

Dozens of “fugitive aliens and immigration violators” were arrested in southwestern Minnesota and South Dakota in a three-day sweep last week, federal officials announced Monday.

Guatemalans accounted for 31 of the 36 people apprehended in Worthington and Pipestone, Minn., and across the border in Sioux Falls, S.D. Two are from Mexico, two are from El Salvador and one is from Honduras.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said fugitive aliens are illegal immigrants who fail to appear for their immigration hearings or become fugitives after a federal judge orders them to leave the country.

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