U.S. immigration swoop targets criminal aliens By Emma Marty

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. immigration police have rounded up hundreds of criminal aliens in southern California, as part of one of their largest ever roundups of foreign lawbreakers and immigration violators, police said on Tuesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the week-long sweep identified 423 criminal aliens due for release from jails across five counties in the Los Angeles area, and took them into custody. The operation also led to the arrest of 338 undocumented immigrants in the area, more than 150 of whom were classed as "immigration fugitives" -- foreign nationals who ignored final deportation orders. "It is one of the largest crackdowns on criminal aliens ever carried out in the United States," Kice told Reuters in a telephone interview. Those arrested in the swoop have all either been removed from the United States already or face deportation.

Those arrested in the swoop have all either been removed from the United States already or face deportation. This picture illustrates how illegal immigrants are contributing to America’s economy.

A young man protests the loss of local jobs to illegal immigration. Again, young children appeal to our emotions and make us see how this boy is effected by immigration policy.

This arrest picture makes us feel at once good about border patrol safety and nervous about illegal immigrants. By not showing this man’s face, he could be anyone. We don’t see him as a real person, but as just a person breaking the law.

This photo shows how immigration is about families trying to make a better life for themselves and their children. We are more likely to be sympathetic when children are in the picture.