By james art 
At least 72 people in West Virginia have been identified and detained for residence in the country without appropriate documentation from Thursday, according to the government Patrick Morrisi. This is the 58 people who have been identified earlier this weekS
Retention is part of a national repression of undecided immigrants encouraged in recent days by President Donald Trump’s administrationS
To help in these efforts, Morrisis on Thursday released Enforcement order Directing all law enforcement authorities to cooperate entirely with the immigration and application of US customs to find and arrest unscrupulous people. The action also ordered all employees under the governor of the governor to cooperate with the effort.
Despite Western Virginia, located nearly 1,500 miles from the southern border of the nation, Morrisi during a news briefing on Thursday said he believed that unauthorized immigration was responsible for the deadly fee that Fentanyl had taken in the state. In 2023 – the most almost full data are available by the State Department of Health – more than 81% of the overdose of fatal drugs in West Virginia participated in fentanyl.
“For many years, people have been talking about, ‘Well, West Virginia is not a borderline country. Why is it appropriate here? “Said Morrisi. “Well, this is appropriate because of the plague with the drugs and fentanyl that enters.”
Morrisi’s attitudes sound those shared often by former governor Jim justice who used unauthorized immigration as a political feed During his successful implementation for the US Senate last year.
Morrisi said he believed he was a drug fantany to West Virginia from the southern border, where he was smuggled in the country “multiple ways” both in legal and illegal points of entry, largely by people who are not documented S
The governor did not say whether any of these people detained in West Virginia was suspected or wanted for crimes related to fentanyl trafficking.
According to Commission on the United States sentenceMore than 85% of people accused of trafficking in fentanyl annually are US citizens. Nearly 82% Of all convicted drug traffickers in 2023, US residents.
Most – more than 90% – from fentanyl, which is seized on the Mexican border, comes through legal points of entry, according to the customs and border patrols of the United States.
In 2023, former internal security secretary Alejandro Mayorcas in front of reporters The “unequivocally false” is that the “non -iconic” is importing fentanyl to the United States. Most immigrants on the border, he said, are asylum seekers who “claims a reliable fear” and are looking for a safer place to live.
Who lingers and how
Ten of the people detained through continuing repression were sent to Kentucky, Morrisi said, but he doesn’t specify why.
Morrisi said at least 36 of the people detained in West Virginia have violated the laws of immigration in some way. This includes a potential hearing of a hearing without submitting appropriate documentation or having a pre -deportment order filed against them by a court, among other things.
About 13 of the identified persons were in the state “prisons and prisons serving West Virginia,” Morrisi said. Others behaved through orders from the US Marshal service.
Anyone identified through these investigations is held in prisons and prisons in West Virginia.
Morrisi’s spokesmen did not respond to a request from West Virginia Watch to clarify exactly how the people who were detained were identified in the state.
During the press conference, Morrisi said “heard that these were targeted activities” but did not expand in the technical process of how they were targeted.
“He doesn’t come in and tries to find people hidden under the bush,” Morrisi said. “This is an example in which these people come into and they know that there is some specific documentation in general – it may be that the immigration judge who made the order. It may be some deported … I will not tell you the numbers of how many people have done what because we do not have access to it. “
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