Alabama state troopers have arrested 106 illegal immigrants over the last six months.
According to the article, police arrested illegal immigrants on board and an Irishman who was leading the operation.
For the next several years he traveled throughout the southwest arresting illegal Chinese immigrants.
The sheriff said that when his officers arrest illegal immigrants, overwhelmed immigration officials tell him to let them go.
In 2007, Greece arrested 112,000 illegal immigrants, up from 40,000 in 2005.
Local police are already allowed to arrest immigrants for violating criminal statutes, like crossing the border illegally.
The immigration service's efforts to arrest illegal immigrants outside the border areas concentrate largely on workplace inspections.
Their arrests were part of an effort to arrest and deport illegal immigrants guilty of serious crimes.
The police arrested six Chinese immigrants yesterday in the kidnapping of a Queens businessman for a $100,000 ransom.
The police arrested three Korean immigrants yesterday, charging them with reckless endangerment and possession of wildlife without a permit.
