By AFPMore by this AuthorWASHINGTONA series of immigration raids across the United States last week rounded up more than 680 people for expulsion, most of them criminals, officials said Monday. "The crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise," he tweeted on Sunday. In fiscal year 2016 (ended September 30), ICE arrested 114,434 illegal immigrants, according to official data. Most of the rest were people arrested inside the country with existing criminal convictions; some 2,000 of them were gang members. Kelly said the focus of the current effort is dangerous criminals, but that it also includes anyone who has broken immigration laws.

Source: Daily Nation February 14, 2017 03:56 UTC