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ICE Arrests 206 LA-Area Illegal Immigrants In Nationwide Sweep

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — More than 200 illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area were arrested in a national immigration sweep, the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement said Monday.

ICE had more than 1,900 officers bring in a total of 3,100 people described as convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators as part of a six-day national "Cross Check" enforcement operation.

KNX 1070's Brian Ping reports in the Los Angeles area alone, 206 people were taken into custody, including 106 previously convicted criminals.

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There were a total of 124 arrests in Los Angeles County, 34 in Orange County, 15 in Riverside County, 14 in San Bernardino County, 10 in Ventura County and nine in Santa Barbara County. ICE says more than 70 of those arrested locally have already been deported from the United States.

"The results of this targeted enforcement operation underscore ICE's ongoing commitment and focus on the arrest and removal of convicted criminal aliens and those that game our nation's immigration system," ICE Director John Morton said in a statement.

According to ICE, 53 of those rounded up in this immigration sweep were previously deported persons who had illegally re-entered the country.

Nationwide, at least 204 of those arrested are being held on a variety of charges including illegal re-entry after deportation, a felony with a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

Those arrested in the Los Angeles area include Veasna Uy, 34, a Cambodia national immigration fugitive living in Long Beach, who was convicted in April 2000 of manslaughter, attempted murder and assault of a deadly weapon. ICE agents also arrested a twice deported Mexican National living in Bell with two prior convictions of narcotics for sale and a Salvadoran national living in North Hollywood who was convicted of arson in 1994.

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