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-- Removed a record high number of 186,000 "illegal aliens" and increased its detention bed space by 6300 to a FY-end total of 27,500 with an average daily number of incarcerated or detained immigrants up to 26,000 since July and rising.
-- Increased the number of "fugitive operations teams" nationwide from 18 to 50 charged with locating, apprehending and removing "criminal aliens" meaning alien victims called criminals. Through its Operation Return to Sender, ICE arrested 14,356 aliens and deported 4716 of them from May 26 to September 30, 2006. ICE intends having 75 teams operating by end of FY 2007 to up the numbers considerably which they'll do.
-- Created a national center operating at all ICE detention facilities to deport "criminal aliens" when released from incarceration. Most will be back.
-- Completed a record high number of "arms and strategic technology" investigations by doubling the number of personnel assigned to do them and by implementing new electronic data entry procedures to track immigration "violators" and "fugitives."
-- Claimed it dismantled the large Colombia Cali drug cartel to stem illegal narcotics trafficking while failing to acknowledge other US agencies, most notably CIA, have a long sordid history of drugs trafficking worldwide as an important revenue source with CIA now partnered with Northern Alliance warlords in Afghanistan (among others around the world) having turned the country into a narco-state, according to a UN report, supplying 92% of the world's opium used for heroin.
-- Conducted financial investigations of human smuggling and other immigration related cases resulting in asset seizures of $42 million or double the amount gotten in FY 2004.
-- Through its Operation Community Shield arrested 3700 since February, 2005 including 2290 suspected "gang members."
-- From worksites, arrested 716 workers (and a few employers getting mere wrist slaps) on "criminal" charges and 3667 individuals on "administrative" charges - a sevenfold increase in total arrests from FY 2002.
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