Hundreds held in immigration raids across US

February 12, 2017 20:44

Hundreds of undocumented immigrants from a dozen Latin American countries have been arrested in at least six US states this week, following US president Donald Trump's executive order to broaden the scope of immigration enforcement targets.

The Immigrants were netted in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, North Carolina and South Carolina, Xinhua news agency quoted US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as saying on Saturday.

Among them 161 arrests were made in Los Angeles and some 200 in Atlanta, said local media reports. The authorities didn't reveal the total number of the arrests.

Gillian Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said the crackdown was part of "routine" immigration enforcement actions.

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