About 10 percent of 3,100 immigrants convicted of crimes or who had repeatedly violated immigration laws were arrested in the Southeast during a six-day nationwide sweep.
The “cross-check” operation, the largest of its kind, involved the collaboration of more than 1,900 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
Arrests around the region:
• 101 were made in Georgia
• 46 in Tennessee