West Virginia worked with ICE — 650 arrests later, officials say Minnesota-style 'chaos' is a choice
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ICE surge in West Virginia netted 650 illegal immigrants from January 5-19, spanning Charles Town to Charleston, according to DHS officials.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Officials involved contrast the West Virginia operation with recent tensions in Minnesota, where ICE-related enforcement actions have sparked sustained protests, surveillance of federal agents and confrontations with law enforcement. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
"I think the most important thing to notice here is that West Virginia and similarly situated states … have made it very, very easy for criminal illegal aliens to be picked up and processed by ICE," West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
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