Independent Record–
Agents with Immigration Customs Enforcement have arrested at least 16 people in western and central Montana in the last month and charged nine, primarily from Mexico, with crimes related to being in the country illegally.
All of the arrests occurred after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement in early May of a zero tolerance policy in prosecuting illegal immigration.
A Missoula group plans to protest the latest arrests and the shift in national policy next week.
Ten of the arrests were in a raid of a morel mushroom harvesting camp in Mineral County. Two other people were picked up in an ICE raid in Whitefish. The other four people were arrested in isolated incidents around western and central Montana.


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