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Prioritizing Illegal Alien Deportation

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has mandated a new federal "Priority Enforcement" policy to focus resources to better target criminal aliens for deportation, rather than pursue compliant ones. We talk with local law enforcement as well as immigrant rights advocates about how the new policy will affect an estimated 60 thousand undocumented immigrants now living in Arkansas.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.