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melo
03-26-2007, 11:06 PM
Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave are grappling with a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can't accurately account for the fugitives' whereabouts, the government reported Monday.

Department's inspector general found that the effectiveness of teams assigned to find the fugitives was hampered by "insufficient detention capacity, limitations of an immigration database and inadequate working space."
Even though more than $204 million was allocated for 52 fugitive operations teams since 2003, a backlog of 623,292 cases existed as of August of 2006, the report said.
The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has been estimated at between 11.5 million and 12 million. About 5.4 percent of them are believed to be "fugitive aliens," those who have failed to leave the country after being ordered out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070326/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fugitive_foreigners;_ylt=Au2VGBGsSBdDXKaL9OM5DfGyF z4D
:lool:

If these people are th fugitives, it must be very easy to stay in the US. You can commit crimes and all they do is ask you to leave? :lool: Is this why people say Americans are so stupid?