Illegal Immigration News Archives

As is the case throughout the nation's largest cities, immigrants contribute to Portland's economy roughly in proportion to their share of the population, according to a study released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute.

The border wall has a Texas woman feeling left out and unprotected. For the past 11 months, crews have been busy along the Rio Grande River constructing the border wall.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit.

Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants.

A San Diego research team is close to releasing a smart phone application to help illegal immigrants navigate safely across the border.

No matter what health care bill emerges from Congress, roughly one in six uninsured Californians will be excluded because they are not legal residents.

For at least three years, a couple in the town of Pacific ran a smuggling operation that brought illegal immigrants from Mexico to be housed in the garage of their home, where the immigrants lived as indentured servants while paying off their smuggling debt, according to court documents.

The Customs and Border Protection employee arrested on bribery and marijuana smuggling charges was an administrator at the Ysleta Port of Entry, a prosecutor said Monday.

A professor at the University of California, San Diego says he has developed a cell phone tool that aims to help Illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

JOHOR BAHARU, Nov 25 -- The Malaysian and Thai armed forces are satisfied with the drop in crimes and illegal activities along the border following close cooperation between them, said Malaysian Armed Forces chief Gen Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin.

Simultaneous studies, released this week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform , document the true costs of illegal immigration in Maryland and demonstrate strong voter objections to the burdens placed on them by illegal immigration.

Police charged a suspected illegal immigrant shortly after midnight Friday with 14 offenses, including DWI, after he allegedly struck three parked vehicles and left the scene of the accident.

In the past, I've advised undocumented immigrants from Mexico to learn English, become legal, value education, refuse handouts, resist entitlement, and culturally assimilate.

A doctor hid her dead mother's body in a freezer for 29 years, fearing the death would spark an immigration inquiry.

Mexican illegal immigrants who were trying to get a piece of the American dream got caught up in a real-life nightmare instead.

A San Diego research team is close to releasing a smart phone application to help illegal immigrants navigate safely across the border.

Two suspected illegal immigrants from Connecticut are being held at the Putnam County jail on federal immigration detainer warrants after troopers from the Brewster barracks charged them over the weekend with driving while under the influence of alcohol, state police said today.

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a steppingstone to a possible White House bid -- a congressional matchup that would pit one of illegal immigration's biggest critics against a champion for immigrant rights.

A judge has agreed to release 24 illegal immigrants who were being held as material witnesses in the case against a former kosher slaughterhouse manager.

The Associated Press SAN DIEGO - Two men have pleaded guilty to helping to run a prostitution ring for migrant workers in San Diego County.

The first Arizona business facing a civil complaint under a law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants is scheduled for a court hearing on Wednesday.

Unmanned military-style drones like those used by British troops in Afghanistan could soon be used to help combat illegal immigration and drug smugglers along Britain's coastlines.

A Missouri trial judge Wednesday ordered the state to pay $152,000 for illegally terminating a janitorial company's state contracts when the firm was targeted by an immigration sting.

For the first time, pro-immigration forces are raising more political donations than their immigration-control counterparts.Two new political action committees that support allowing some illegal immigrants to become citizens have raised more money this election cycle than established groups that back enforcement-only policies.

The same week Lou Dobbs suggested he would consider running for the White House in 2012, the former CNN anchorman appears to be softening his stance on his signature issue of illegal immigration.

Authorities say a truck carrying illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico has plummeted more than 40 feet off a cliff in southwest Texas.

Two fledgling political action committees that support allowing some illegal immigrants to become citizens are raising more money than their immigration-control counterparts, signaling a possible fundraising shift ahead of next year's congressional races.

Have gains in enforcement set the stage for comprehensive reform? The Obama administration is committed to making a major push early next year.

A massive search was launched today after two illegal immigrants were feared to have jumped off a ferry in stormy weather in a bid to enter the UK.

A federal court has ordered Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy remain on 24-hour home lockdown and could send her to jail amid allegations she tried to bribe a witness in her ongoing criminal case.

Gov. Jan Brewer and top Republican legislative leaders are joining the Legislature's lead critic of illegal immigration in blasting Arizona municipalities for going to court to challenge parts of a budget law.

The three people accused of killing an Arivaca girl and her father in May will likely be tried during at least two separate trials.

Immigration officials say six illegal immigrants have been arrested in Mount Vernon, Wash., after agents descended on a trailer park.

A Republican state senator in Ohio wants to prohibit the nation's largest state-run injured worker insurance program from providing benefits to illegal immigrants, a change he said should lower business premiums.

Is Congress, behind on Barack Obama's deadlines on health care and cap-and-trade legislation, and flummoxed by the failure of the stimulus package to hold unemployment below 10.2 percent, prepared to address the immigration issue next year? Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says it better be.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested 57 people discovered packed into a house in southern Arizona they believe was used by smugglers to hide undocumented immigrants.

A Republican state senator in Ohio wants to prohibit the nation's largest state-run injured worker insurance program from providing benefits to illegal immigrants.

Released by Jean Dark with DPS: Through coordinated efforts, DPS, local and federal agencies are impacting illegal drug trafficking operations along the border.

More than 1,000 illegal immigrants awaiting trial for serious crimes in one major U.S. county were instead deported by federal immigration authorities and freed in their home countries.

On Wednesday, a Charlotte, NC man and woman -- illegally residing in the U.S. -- were charged in federal court with conspiracy to kidnap two children in Mecklenburg County, NC in 2009, according to reports obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police ...

The U.S. government will audit hiring records of 1,000 firms in agriculture, healthcare and other areas to determine if they have illegal immigrants working for them, authorities said on Friday.

The United States has severely restricted access to a spot on the Mexican border where families and lovers divided by illegal immigration could unite briefly to hold hands or kiss through a fence.

Deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records from Alaska, Oregon and Washington this past year jumped by nearly 40 percent, while overall removals dropped for the first time in five years, according to new data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to five years probation and been ordered to pay a fine for agreeing to a sham marriage to help an illegal immigrant avoid deportation.

The latest loser in the political pandemonium over health care reform may be immigrants living in America, an estimated 24 million people likely to be bartered in order to win support in Congress from fence-sitting Democratic moderates and conservatives.

In the past, I've advised undocumented immigrants from Mexico to learn English, become legal, value education, refuse handouts, resist entitlement, and culturally assimilate.

Hospital cleaning bosses at major firm arrested over 'migrant fraud' By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:58 AM on 20th November 2009 Three managers at an NHS hospital cleaning company have been arrested on suspicion of blackmailing foreign staff.

Sen. Orrin Hatch joined 11 other GOP senators in a letter Friday criticizing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for saying legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants would be a boon to the economy.

Two brothers and a third man were in federal custody Friday on suspicion of conspiring to help thousands of illegal immigrants enter the United States west of the Otay Mesa border crossing, authorities said.

Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy is expected to return to court Monday to face new charges in connection with an ongoing tax fraud and illegal hiring case.

U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade dismissed the 72 immigration charges just hours after the government made its request.

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress. The Democratic-controlled House passed its legislation on a 220-215 vote Saturday night.

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton made appearances in Washington on Thursday to announce that they are cracking down on businesses that employ illegal immigrants as well as recognizing those that try to follow the law by using an online system that verifies an ...

U.S. immigration officials put an unprecedented 1,000 businesses - including 42 in the Houston metro area - on notice Thursday that their paperwork would be inspected to make sure they don't employ illegal immigrants.

Associate Press November 19, 2009 El Paso, Texas - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection technician is accused of conspiring to smuggle marijuana and illegal immigrants into the U.S. Federal investigators said Martha Alicia Garnica, a 43-year-old CBP technician, was indicted and arrested Wednesday.

Some US Democrats see momentum building for an overhaul of immigration laws that would legalise millions of undocumented workers, but analysts say a crowded agenda and struggling economy may once again sink hopes for reform next year.

New federal data shows that deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records from Alaska, Oregon, and Washington this past year spiked by nearly 40 percent, while overall removals dropped slightly.

Jon Stewart had a Mexican mariachi band welcome anti-illegal immigration critic Lou Dobbs on "The Daily Show" Wednesday, but later avoided a discussion of immigration policy when challenging the ex-CNN pundit's political positions.

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday.

It was meet the press time for Carly Fiorina on Wednesday. But, judging from her responses to many questions, it was not time for this rookie candidate to let the press pin her down.

Three Army soldiers were among those arrested during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's most recent crime sweep.

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: The Senate Democratic bill : WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of legal residents under age 65 - compared with 83 percent now.

An Arizona prosecutor says his office has filed the first civil complaint against a business under a 22-month-old state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

TWO men who ran Top Wok Chinese restaurants have been ordered to pay more than A 90,000 for employing 20 illegal immigrants.

A group of men head to their cars at dusk after leaving the Jackson construction site where they work.

MANY Latinos probably feel like salsa dancing in the streets now that CNN has finally cleared the air by purging itself of Lou Dobbs.

Law enforcement agencies in three Georgia counties are set to receive new technology to identify and deport illegal immigrants who are considered dangerous criminals.

A criminal gang suspected of trafficking more than 2,000 people has been targeted by police in a series of raids across Europe.

The national embarrassment that is our "border security" continues to not be taken seriously.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office launched its 13th immigration and crime sweep Monday evening.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer remains in federal custody after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of bribery, cocaine trafficking and smuggling undocumented immigrants.

Within the last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 17 illegal aliens at three suspected drop houses in the Phoenix area.

Magdalit Ramirez and Rogaciano Ramirez-Diaz were sentenced on Monday. They are among seven immigrants charged with using fake Texas driver's licenses in the names of legal workers whose refund checks were stolen.

During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo's son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico .

In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal immigrants.

Immigration officials announced today that a fingerprint-based system that screens for suspected illegal immigrants in local jails resulted in the identification of more than 111,000 people classified as "criminal aliens" in its first year.

Yakima County jail echoes with slamming steel doors and yelling prisoners as a federal agent sits down behind a computer with a list of inmates to interview.

Immigrant advocates are getting ready to push Massachusetts lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition at state colleges.Lawmakers are expected to revisit the issue three years after House lawmakers soundly rejected a similar bill.But this time activists say they have cultivated a broader ...

Hundreds of defendants awaiting trial for violent crimes in Dallas County have been deported by federal immigration officials and then set free in their home countries.

Share + Comments Nov 14, 2009 5:54 pm US/Mountain DENVER People who oppose planned legislation to overhaul the nation's immigration system are protesting around the country with "tea parties." Denver and Durango were among the 50 cities where the protests were held Saturday as part of a movement called Tea Parties Against Amnesty & Illegal ...

Human trafficking has been called an unseen crime, its victims and perpetrators too often hidden from public view.

WITHIN hours after the House of Representatives approved health care reform by a narrow margin, Republicans predicted retribution at the polls next fall.

Law enforcement officials around the country say there's been a spike in recent years of robbers preying on Hispanic victims.

The mayors of Mexican border cities agreed during a meeting here to work on improving the perception that their northern neighbors and people from other countries have about them.

The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.

Gov. Rick Perry unleashed tough criticism of the Obama administration this week, saying the administration is "hell-bent" on implementing socialism.

Immigration advocates shouted support for health care reform Monday afternoon as Sen.

Some faculty and students at the University of Nevada, Reno are angered that an anti-illegal immigration activist was invited to participate at campus forum next week.

While Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix gets all the media attention for his crackdown on illegal immigrants, eight deputies in an unremarkable office at the Harris County Jail are posting similar numbers for deportation -- and doing so without controversy.

The country's understaffed land ports of entry need massive investments in infrastructure, technology and personnel to avoid becoming the path of choice for human and drug smugglers, according to a report released Wednesday by a border advocacy group.

The sweeping health care overhaul package before Congress is under an 11th-hour attack over a pair of emotional issues, abortion and immigration, that are complicating Democrats' efforts to piece together the coalition they need to pass the bill.

CNN's Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities.

Hundreds of accused felons charged with murder, rape, assault and kidnapping have been deported from Dallas County without having to face criminal prosecution.

The Republican Party has to repair fences with Latino voters in America after losing their support in the 2008 presidential election, party officials say.

A Mexican citizen has been sentenced to more than two years in jail for holding hostage a baby that had been illegally smuggled into Arizona.

San Francisco supervisors have overturned the mayor's veto of a controversial ordinance involving how the city deals with illegal immigrant minors facing felony charges.After Mayor Gavin Newsom last month vetoed a measure that would prohibit local authorities from turning over minors to immigration officials until the minors have been convicted, ...

A border bandit shot an undocumented immigrant in the leg during an attempted robbery just north of the U.S.-Mexico line Tuesday.

As an underdog U.S. Senate candidate courting the GOP's conservative wing, Marco Rubio takes a hard-line position against illegal immigration: no amnesty.

In California, the word "sanctuary" prompts talk of Edwin Ramos, a 22-year-old Salvadoran accused of a brutal triple murder last year.

Medicare may be cut and Medicaid expanded as part of President Obama's health care plan, but there's no one permanently in charge of the two federal programs.

Federal agents now pursue illegal criminals more Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:37 Federal agents are raiding thousands of homes of criminal illegal immigrants under Obama administration directives that emphasize apprehending dangerous criminals over arresting nonviolent illegal residents.

A Texas man was sentenced Monday to more than 14 years in prison for his role in what became the deadliest human smuggling attempt in U.S. history.

Greece, long criticised for its handling of immigrants, will grant citizenship to some 250,000 migrant children but will also send thousands of detained illegal immigrants away, a senior official has said.

San Bernardino County taxpayers have spent an estimated $54.5 million to jail illegal immigrants since 2004, and officials have been fighting an uphill battle to get the federal government to pick up more of that cost.

At least $1.4 million given by the state to county prosecutors for enforcing Arizona's employer sanctions law is sitting idle.

The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing a proposal to collect fingerprints or eye scans from all foreign travelers at US airports as they leave the country, officials said, a costly screening program that airlines have opposed.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST As House Democrats move towards a weekend vote, they must resolve a series of outstanding issues, The Hill reports.

CARMEL - An illegal immigrant with no license and a blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of Lori and Kayla Donohue, the mother and daughter he mowed down with a pickup truck as they left the second-grader's dance class.

The man who founded Agriprocessors, Inc. told a federal jury Tuesday that he did not understand how illegal immigrants arrested during a massive raid had come to work in his eastern Iowa meat plant.

Cole Wilcox doesn't consider himself an activist. The 25-year-old from Phoenix was compelled to show up at the Arizona capitol Saturday afternoon to protest against members of a neo-Nazi group who were there rallying against illegal immigration.

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 7 -- Parti Bersatu Sabah president Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan has called for a definite solution to the state's illegal immigrant problem, saying the issue has been going on for so long.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 10:23 am US/Central Police arrested two men and two women earlier this week who allegedly ran a lottery ticket scam that targeted elderly Hispanic victims.

"you pay - we play" Congressional Hispanics [Congressional Hispanic Caucus] have threatened to vote against the bill because of a last-minute threat from within the Democratic Caucus to bolster the House bill's immigration restrictions to match those included in the Senate Finance bill.

In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero .

EVEN though no Republican candidate for president or the U.S. Senate has carried California since 1988, it's still not entirely impossible for a Republican to be elected governor next year.

Republican gubernatorial candidates who promised more hardline immigration stances won races in Virginia and New Jersey.

MOUNT PLEASANT - Pleasant Places, Inc. landscaping faces a $24,000 state fine for alleged violations of the South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act, officials said Thursday.

There was a side tragedy to the heart-wrenching deaths in June of a Brewster mother and daughter who were struck and killed by a drunk driver: so much attention was centered on the driver's status as an illegal immigrant and unlicensed driver that the unknowing could almost be excused for believing that those deficiencies were the cause of the ...

Former Customs and Border Protection inspector Sergio Lopez Hernandez, 41, has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for alien smuggling, bribery and drug trafficking, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.

President Barack Obama and House Democrats scrambled on Thursday to secure the votes to pass a historic health care overhaul initiative, working to ease disagreements with rank-and-file lawmakers over abortion and illegal immigrants.

The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has been invited to stump for a challenger's bid to be Orange County's next sheriff.

Weld County authorities are urging the Colorado Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that halted an identity theft investigation against hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants.

PHOENIX a ' One of the key attorneys fighting Arizona's employer-sanctions law is hoping the Obama administration keeps politics out of its legal opinions.

A rescue beacon Tuesday night led Yuma sector Border Patrol agents to the rescue of six illegal aliens who had become stranded in a remote area of the desert east of Yuma.

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A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling against three Latino voters who tried to change how council members are elected in a Dallas suburb.

A San Elizario man killed last month was a convicted "coyote" who was the leader of a local immigrant-smuggling ring, federal documents revealed.

Groups trying to overturn an Arizona law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants are encouraged that the U.S. Supreme Court has expressed an interest in their appeal.

A California jury has acquitted a Mexican boy of murder in the drowning of six suspected illegal immigrants but convicted him of gross vehicular manslaughter for driving a sport utility vehicle into a canal in the fatal crash.The jury in El Centro deliberated for about six hours over two days before delivering its verdict Tuesday in the trial of ...

Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records during the past year, new data show.

Twenty-one suspected illegal immigrants who attempted to enter the country by water were arrested over the weekend in two separate incidents, a Border Patrol official said Monday.

A South Carolina poultry plant raided by immigration agents last year has agreed to change its hiring practices under supervision to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Jose Spencer's small motel is bustling with business, and that makes him worried about the future.

House Democratic leaders presented a new health overhaul bill on Thursday that melds legislation passed by three committees over the summer and makes a series of changes to accommodate lawmakers' concerns.

A Fallbrook couple who admitted being part of smuggling organization that brought more than 100 illegal immigrants into the United States from Mexico were sentenced today to federal prison terms.

The Obama administration will enter the politically tricky immigration arena, courtesy of the Supreme Court.

Serious gaps in Colorado police records are making it hard for police to track problem drivers.

There's an old saying in politics: "If you don't vote, you don't count." In short, areas where voting turnout is low lose influence in government and the money and services that come with it.

Hayden is a typical teenager. He loves football. So this week CBS 7's Tatum Hubbard recruited a real professional to share a few secret plays.

PHOENIX a ' The security of an Arizona sheriff who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration is under review after a shooting scare involving CNN commentator Lou Dobbs.

On May 10, 2007, incest victim Lucila Ventura listens to the five-year sentence she is handed as part of a plea deal.

Federal prosecutors say a former executive at a beef processing plant has been fined $15,000 and sentenced to probation for his part in the employment of 15 illegal immigrants.

Fifty-four members of Congress, mostly Republicans, have signed a letter to President Barack Obama praising the 287 program that allows specially trained state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law.

In a shift from the current policy whereby the vehicles of unlicensed drivers pulled over in traffic stops would be immediately towed, police will now give those drivers 20 minutes for a licensed and insured person to arrive and drive off the vehicle.

A gunshot was fired at the New Jersey home of CNN's Lou Dobbs , and the anchor told listeners of his nationally syndicated radio show that he's received threatening phone calls.