Dems: ICE should focus on criminals, not workers

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | June 25, 2008

WASHINGTON - While the nation’s immigration officers have increasingly raided job sites, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants sit in prisons. Yet rather than being deported, they often are released into the community. This week in Congress, Democrats — with little resistance from Republicans — are trying to force the Bush administration to focus more on the criminals and less on the working folk. They want to give $800 million to Immigration and Customs Enforcement so the agency can try harder to deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes.

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