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U.S. authorities round up 39 immigrant convicts
Nov. 23, 2002
MIAMI (AP) -- Dozens of immigrants who convicted
of crimes in the United States have been arrested for deportation during a
10-day sweep, immigration officials said.
The 39 immigrants were found guilty of crimes ranging from drug trafficking
to robbery and served time in U.S. prisons. After their release, immigration
judges ruled they should be deported. "Sometimes these folks slip through the system," John Shewairy,
chief of staff for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Florida, said
Friday.
The immigrants were from 19 countries: Jamaica, Honduras, the Bahamas,
Yugoslavia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Mexico, Chili, Argentina, India,
Venezuela, Nicaragua, Israel, Iran, Trinidad, Bangladesh, Bolivia and Guatemala.
After their arrests, the immigrants were detained until their deportation, a
process that takes between a day and two weeks, officials said.
Last year the INS arrested 209 criminal immigrants for deportation in the
Miami district.
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