ICE doing the job other law enforcement can't

In the Southeast, four teams of ICE officers - two in Atlanta and one each in Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C. - arrested 2,295 people in the 12 months ending Sept. 30; up from 525 in the previous period.
Of that number, 1,031 illegal immigrants had ignored a judge's order to leave the country and were fugitives. An additional 123 were both fugitives and criminals; 574 were criminals without deportation orders; and 567 were simply illegal immigrants caught when agents arrested the others.

But check out this sentence all the way at the end of the article.

Nationally, there were more than 30,408 arrests in fiscal 2007, compared to 15,462 last year, ICE said. ICE officials said the backlog of fugitives was down by 38,000 to 595,000 for the new fiscal year.

Now look at how close the numbers from the team working the Midwest out of Chicago are.

The agency arrested 1,043 fugitive immigrants in the six Midwestern states overseen by operations in Chicago, up from 520 in fiscal year 2006.

In Florida the numbers looked like this.

The 2,579 arrests are part of a nationwide effort by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track and detain immigrants who stayed after they were ordered to leave. Others may have lost their appeal for political asylum, or other immigration benefits, and stayed on in the United States illegally, while some are foreign-born gang members or violent criminals, according to officials.

And in Jammie's neck of the woods this is the results.

Of the 2,079 people arrested on immigration charges during the fiscal year, 270 had criminal histories in addition to being in the country illegally, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.