Federal immigration authorities say they made an eye-catching 822 arrests during a weeklong operation last week meant to tamp down on dangerous criminals — but provided scant details about the peoplecaught up in the operation.
Officials published a news release about “egregious immigration offenders” andspecifically identified 10 people who’d been convicted of charges ranging from robbery and armed carjacking to intoxication manslaughter and homicide. But beyond those 10 names, federal authorities only said that 330 were previously ordered removed from the U.S. and around 112 had been deported and illegally reentered the country at least once.
Critics argue that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement often touts huge arrest numbers but doesn’t say who was arrested or why in most cases, raising questions about how dangerous the detainees really are…