Today the Center for Immigration Studies gives us useful information about the extent of immigrant criminal activity in the US and how law enforcement in some parts of the US are tackling it—other parts of the US are ignoring it!
WASHINGTON (October 1, 2008) – A new Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder finds that immigration law enforcement has been highly effective in fighting gang activity around the country. Local law enforcement agencies that shun involvement with immigration law enforcement are missing an opportunity to protect their communities, according to the authors. Since 2005, ICE has arrested more than 8,000 immigrant gangsters from more than 700 different gangs under an initiative known as Operation Community Shield.
For more information and to read the report (Taking Back the Streets: ICE and Local Law Enforcement Target Immigrant Gangs) go here.
We have written about Somali gang activity in Seattle here and in Minneapolis here, and Kurdish gangs in Nashville here.