Federal officials announced Friday they had arrested 370 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally or convicted of other crimes as part of a three-day roundup in the Midwest, according to AP. Those arrested were legal immigrants with convictions that made them eligible for deportation, illegal immigrants who had been convicted of other crimes, immigration fugitives wanted for being in the country illegally or people who had been deported and come back. «These are not people we want freely roaming our streets,» said John Morton, director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. The operation involving local law enforcement and federal agencies ended Thursday. Arrests were made in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio, officials said. The immigrants arrested were from more than 50 countries, and some had been convicted of crimes involving drugs and sexual offenses, ICE said. The countries spanned the globe, including Iraq, India, Kenya, Syria, Togo, Bosnia, Canada and Vietnam, Morton said. It was the latest in series of similar enforcement operations ICE has been conducting around the country since last year.
