Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John F. Kelly ordered the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to create a program to assist the victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens. The program creates a liaison and authorizes the disclosure of suspect immigration statuses and other pertinent data.
The family of an illegal immigrant arrested during a recent roundup of criminal aliens seems shocked that immigration laws are being enforced.
Enforcement actions underway in Texas as part of the nationwide Operation Cross Check have landed 44 criminal aliens in federal detention this week. While the ICE spokesperson would not confirm or deny the operation, U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro confirmed the arrests underway in Austin and throughout South and Central Texas are part of Operation Crosscheck.
Texas legislators are sticking to their guns and are coming after cities and campuses in Texas that declare themselves havens for illegal aliens. They vow to put an end to the illegal sheltering and punish those who do it.
Arizona state police arrested close to 200 Mexican drug cartel smugglers and previously-deported criminal aliens during a seven day roundup south of Tucson.
The illegal immigrant who allegedly carjacked two elderly women at gunpoint and led police on a high-speed car chase in Kansas City, Missouri earlier this month had a prior felony record and multiple contacts with federal immigration officials, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
Those criminal aliens Philadelphia released and ICE officials later re-arrested had prior criminal convictions for crimes including DUI, aggravated assault, weapons offenses and narcotics manufacturing.
A decision handed down recently from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erodes the government’s ability to detain criminal aliens and must be challenged, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported sex offender shortly after he re-entered the United States illegally in southern California early Friday morning.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has arrested 58 criminal aliens in the New York metropolitan area, in an operation targeting deportable foreign nationals who have committed crimes sufficiently bad to warrant removal under President Barack Obama’s “priorities” for enforcement of existing laws.
An illegal immigrant whom Philadelphia police released from custody last year and is now charged with raping a child under the age of 13-years-old should be a wake up call for the city to end its sanctuary policies, according to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA).
According to ICE, several had prior felony convictions, others had multiple or “significant” misdemeanor convictions, and one was a previously deported criminal alien.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has taken into custody more than 130 criminal aliens in and around Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. this month. ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers made the arrests during separate operations targeting foreign
According to a Center for Immigration Studies review of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement data this fiscal year through the third week of June, ICE has made 168,781 deportations, down from the same point in 2015. ICE is on pace to hit 230,000 deportations by the end of the fiscal year, the lowest number of deportations since 2006.
McALLEN, Texas — A top Mexican drug smuggler believed to be the leader of a large ring operating in South Texas has died in an apparent suicide while in federal custody.
While tens of thousands of deportable aliens have been released into the United States because the aliens’ home countries declined to take them back, the Obama Administration has not withheld visas from a single country for refusing to repatriate its citizens, government officials testified Thursday before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Nearly 200,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails over the past five years. Those numbers included more than 155,000 criminal illegal aliens.
Department of Homeland Security information provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee and obtained by Center for Immigration Studies director of policy Jessica Vaughan reveals that as of July 4, 2015 there were 925,193 illegal immigrants with final orders of deportation in the U.S., nearly 20 percent (or 179,040) of whom have at least one criminal conviction.
The criminal aliens released in FY 2014 who went on to commit those additional crimes had convictions for offenses like homicide, kidnapping, assault, sexual assault, and drunk driving. The new crimes, according to ICE’s report to Congress, included vehicular homicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, DUI, burglary and assault.
As the Globe notes, the 30 percent recidivist rate it uncovered in New England alone is higher than the rate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for interior immigration enforcement, has touted in the past.
More than 80 criminal aliens and gang members were arrested in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada last week, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Countries that refuse to take back their citizens who have committed crimes in the U.S. should be denied foreign aid and travel visas, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants previously convicted of crimes in the U.S. have been apprehended trying to enter the country via the Southwest border over the past 2.5 years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data provided to
Dozens of convicted criminal aliens are in custody after being arrested by immigration authorities last week.
LA GRULLA, Texas — Mexican cartel human smugglers tried to rape an 11-year-old girl from Honduras and then brutally beat the girl’s mother when the woman tried to protect her daughter — all of which occurred in the state of Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border.
An illegal alien convicted of crossing into Texas to rob illegal aliens and then cross back into Mexico will now spend five years in prison.
An overwhelming percentage of criminal aliens the Obama administration knows are in the U.S. are not detained but are instead living in neighborhoods and communities across the country, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
Michelle Root, the mother of 21-year old Sarah Root, spoke about the devastation of losing her daughter at the hands of Eswin Mejia, an illegal immigrant who killed Root while street-racing drunk. Mejia was able to flee when Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to detain him and he was able to post bail.
There are more illegal immigrant criminals in the United States than the population of major U.S. cities, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) argues, expressing frustration at the Obama administration’s focus on the plight of illegal immigrants rather than the victims of their crimes.
Border Patrol agents arrested a previously convicted illegal alien over the weekend as he tried to re-enter the country illegally. A Texas court had convicted the Mexican national who tried to kill a Brownsville Police officer in 1989.
A day after the Obama administration argues for an extension of amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants before the Supreme Court, the mothers of victims murdered by illegal immigrants will appear before a House panel to call for tougher immigration enforcement.
The bipartisan sentencing reform push in Congress would cause the premature release of many criminal aliens without a guarantee of deportation, according to NumbersUSA.
Immigration authorities are holding more than 40 criminal aliens in New Jersey, all convicted of sex crimes against children.
More than 1,100 criminal gang members have been arrested in a multi-week Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, netting transnational gang members allegedly involved in crimes like human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder, drug trafficking, and racketeering.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained 15 criminal aliens this week in Northern Illinois. Over a two-day enforcement sweep, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 14 illegal immigrants from Mexico and one illegal immigrant from Uruguay. All 15 illegal
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than two dozen criminal aliens throughout central Florida, at least one of whom was previously deported from the United States.
Criminal aliens the government released, rather than deported, went on to be charged with 124 homicides within a five year timeframe, according to a new analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.
The new policies the city of New Orleans has implemented that prevent law enforcement officers from sharing the immigration status of individuals they arrest with federal immigration officials has created yet another sanctuary city, and local leaders should reconsider the guidelines, according to Sen. David Vitter (R-LA).
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) and his lieutenants staved off tea party and far right-wing challengers in the Republican Party primary election.
Nearly 90,000 illegal immigrants that federal officials considered to be “criminal threats” were released from custody last fiscal year instead of being deported. The actions were because of Obama administration policies, the Washington Examiner reports.