"[2] A federal agent disguised himself as a contractor and enlisted the men to work on a construction site before handing them over to ICE.
Those already jailed will be transferred to federal custody when they finish serving their state sentences, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The sweep netted illegal immigrants from 14 countries in all, including Mexico, Honduras, Ukraine, India, Japan, Poland and Trinidad and Tobago.
[3] However, this is contradicted by numerous citations that the operation is ongoing, including one[4] from the Contra Costa Times newspaper dated March 9, 2007, which quotes ICE as having arrested 13,000 more people from mid-June 2006 through January 2007, and also outlines the ACLU of Northern California's involvement in filing FOIA requests to find out more information about how ICE is conducting this operation.
Raids in Marin County, California under "Return To Sender" occurred in early March 2007, showing that the operation continues.