“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that their teams of officers who track down criminal aliens and immigration fugitives arrested almost twice as many in fiscal year 2007 than in the previous year. For the first time since records have been kept, the nation’s fugitive alien population is on the decline.
In the last fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30, ICE Fugitive Operations Teams arrested 30,408 individuals – up from 15,462 arrests made in FY 2006. One of the reasons for the increase in arrests is the deployment of dozens more teams across the country. ICE met its goal of deploying 75 teams by the end of FY 2007; up from 52 active teams in FY2006.”