Southeastern immigration agents who focus on finding fugitives, arrested four times the number of illegal immigrants in fiscal 2007, compared to the previous year. Among 24 units nationwide that specialize in catching fugitives, the Georgia-North Carolina territory had the third-highest number of arrests. Only Los Angeles and Miami had more. Agents on these teams focus on finding people who have not shown up for immigration hearings, or stayed in the U.S. after orders by a judge to leave.
