Bush Official refuses to say if popular California roundups will continue

July 13, 2004 Tron Nick

COMING TO AMERICA:

STILL NO EUROPEAN OR CANADIANS ROUNDED UP in "Immigrant Sweeps"

Border Patrol agents who executed highly popular roundups of illegal aliens in Southern California last month -- the first of their kind in recent memory -- say they've been told to stop such enforcement action, and the Bush administration official in charge of the immigration enforcement has refused to say if there would be additional sweeps in the future. In an extraordinary radio interview Thursday on Los Angeles talk-radio station KFI, talk-show host John Kobylt grilled Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson about why the roundups had been ended. [more]