Georgia surges in arrests of known illegal aliens

Arrests of illegal immigrants on the lam have quadrupled in the Southeast in the last year. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports the increase puts Georgia and North Carolina just behind Los Angeles and Miami for such arrests. Two teams of officers based in Atlanta, along with a team in Raleigh and Charlotte, arrested nearly 2, 300 people from October 2006 to October 2007. That’s up from over 500 arrests in the previous year.