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Citing cost concerns, U.S. Marshals to cease Project Safe Surrender for fugitives

By | 03.07.11 | 1:45 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

The U.S. Marshals have ended a program credited with rounding up 34,000 fugitives in the past five years because the program is not affordable.

The Associated Press reports that Project Safe Surrender was started in Ohio in 2005 after a law enforcement officer was shot in the More…

Environmental Protection Agency ‘Fugitive’ Captured

By | 11.02.10 | 11:53 am

For those of you already growing weary of midterm election coverage, here’s something completely different:

Albania Deleon, an “Environmental Protection Agency fugitive” and the first woman to be given that title, was captured in the Dominican Republic Saturday after months on the run. Deleon was wanted by the EPA for More…

ICE Ends Quotas for Deporting Immigrants

By | 08.18.09 | 9:09 am

Since 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been sending teams of agents around the country to arrest and deport immigrants they could find with outstanding deportation orders or criminal records. But in 2006, ICE stopped requiring that two-thirds of those people be criminals. At the same time, it

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