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Immigration officials focus on interior enforcement

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published May 30, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT
This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they've beefed up interior enforcement around San Diego County away from the border. They say they're going after illegal immigrants who have already

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they've beefed up interior enforcement around San Diego County away from the border. They say they're going after illegal immigrants who have already been ordered deported from the United States but remain in the country. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has details.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Diego arrested 20 illegal immigrants in an operation that began earlier this week. That leaves about 5,400 so-called immigrant fugitives in the county.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack says the operation is phase two of President Bush's plan to control the border that was announced last month.

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Mack: "And as part of that plan ICE has implemented specific goals and one of those goals is beefed up fugitive operations where you've got a team out there seeking to arrest and locate immigrant fugitives."

Mack says in the course of these operations it is common to also arrest people who are in the home or the vicinity of the person being targeted because they are in the country illegally too. Amy Isackson, KPBS News.

Amy Isackson
Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.
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