Immigration crackdown, by the numbers

May 26, 2012 at 10:46PM

129 New number of fugitive operations teams

104 Previous number of the teams

50 Suspects each team is expected to arrested a month, documents said, but denied by ICE

127,044 Number of criminal illegal immigrants removed this fiscal year, a rate that is about 9 percent less than last year.

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It’s too soon to tell how much the immigration crackdown is to blame.