Crackdown on Fugitives Nets "Collateral" Arrests
"More than one-third of 18,000 people arrested in a nearly yearlong federal crackdown on illegal immigrants were not the people authorities targeted, according to government figures.
The so-called "collateral arrests" involved people picked up by immigration agents while seeking fugitives such as drug smugglers, thieves, drunken drivers and others who flouted deportation orders."
2006 IJJ Border Justice Fellow ELLIOT SPAGAT for the Associated Press.