Iowa shares an INS office located in Omaha. NE. In its February report. the Omaha INS office reported that they apprehend a total of 704 illegal aliens last year for the two State area. This number is up by 52 percent from 1994. The irony here is that in 1995. the INS office in Omaha was operating at a 33 percent reduction in manpower from 1994 staff levels. Yet the number of illegal aliens apprehended increased by 52 percent that year. This same report states that there are about 550 criminal aliens being detained or serving sentences in Iowa and Nebraska citycounty jails. Many of these aliens were arrested for controlled substance violations and drug trafficking crimes.
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