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A senior administration official has publicly acknowledged the pain caused to Americans by the administration’s policy of releasing jailed foreign criminals into the United States, rather than repatriating the criminals.

A woman in east Texas appears to have been beaten to death by her common-law husband who is reported to be an illegal alien.

The Judiciary Committees of the U.S. House and Senate have demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security after the DOJ declined to prosecute a Mexican national following his fourth deportation and re-entry into the U.S.

The man now accused in a series of rapes and assaults of women in Austin, Texas, was free on the streets after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio declined to prosecute him for illegal re-entry after his fourth deportation.

During a speech in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated that maybe the “deportation task force” he would create to remove “the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America,” will maybe be able to deport Democratic

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.

LAPLACE, Louisiana – A bus driven by an illegal immigrant full of foreign workers headed to aid the Baton Rouge, Louisiana flood victims crashed in a horrific accident that killed at least two people and left 41 injured.

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.

From Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard: The national union that represents 7,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claims that House Speaker Paul Ryan is playing a role in the national immigration crisis by not voicing strong support for law enforcement’s

According to ICE, several had prior felony convictions, others had multiple or “significant” misdemeanor convictions, and one was a previously deported criminal alien.

A company in a small California city has agreed to pay $1.5 million but will avoid prosecution for hiring 49 illegal aliens. The company rehired 13 of the illegal alien employees after the ICE audit that originally busted them.

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.

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.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) pressed ICE Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale on the 953,507 aliens with final orders of removal who the government has failed to deport.

The nation’s largest measles outbreak may, at least in part, be caused by the refusal of federal immigration detention center workers to get vaccinations. Arizona health officials have pinpointed one detention center as the focal point of the spreading virus.

Washington politicians often claim they need more resources in order to secure our borders, but our analysis at OpenTheBooks.com suggests the real problem may be a lack of political will.

Federal law enforcement agents rounded-up forty-five international fugitives in the United States as part of an operation dubbed “Project Red II.” The operation teamed up agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) with deputy U.S. Marshals to find and arrest international fugitives.

The leader of a Houston area MS-13 gang was convicted in a Texas criminal district court in connection with the murder of a 14-year-old Texas boy. The murder was carried out with the use of a machete as four gang members hacked the boy to death.

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.

The suspect charged with murdering five people Monday via arson was “in the United States illegally.”

In the same week that federal immigration officials announced the apprehension of 331 illegal immigrants in the Midwest, several more were arrested for rape in Iowa and Oklahoma.

Jorge Ramos told a crowd of nearly 1,000 illegal aliens, DREAMERs and their supporters “I think you the DREAMers are the Rosa Parks of this time.” The crowd was gathered to show support for President Obama’s executive amnesty programs — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). Following the speeches, the group marched to the Harris County jail to protest the department’s participation in the federal immigration program, 287(g).

According to ICE, the items seized by special agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) during the month-long operation included t-shirts, caps, team flags, and decals with counterfeit branding.

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.

UCLA shooting suspect Mainak Sarkar came to the United States on a foreign student visa in 2001 after graduating from a prestigious Indian technology university and was granted permanent legal status in the U.S. in 2014.

The Boston Herald reports that the Republican Baker administration is lifting the 2014 policy prohibiting state police from holding illegal immigrants at the request of federal immigration officials.

In another effort by President Obama to cater to the small percent of individuals who identify on a given day as transgender, an illegal alien detention center in Texas will now designate 5.1 percent of their beds to those who so self-identify. This is despite the fact that the federal government’s own numbers report only 0.2 percent of illegal aliens identify themselves as transgender.

Amid activist calls additional protections for transgendered migrants, the Obama administration is planning a new detention facility for illegal immigrants that would include a unit designated solely for transgender detainees, according to a new report.

A high-ranking immigration enforcement official confirmed that President Barack Obama’s “priority enforcement program” has blocked the deportation and repatriation of many illegal immigrants.

Deportations are down because of President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, because of sanctuary cities and because local authorities are refusing to honor federal immigration “detainer” requests, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified Thursday.

As the Senate prepares for Thursday’s hearing on plummeting deportation rates and increasing criminal alien releases, an anonymous whistleblower is now speaking out about alleged waste and abuse of taxpayer funds within a federal immigration enforcement agency.

More than 80 criminal aliens and gang members were arrested in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada last week, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The man that Houston police say was driving drunk and evading arrest when he crashed into a car, killing a young woman on her way home from the prom, is listed by federal officials as a previously deported illegal alien.

Central and South American immigrants are finding loopholes in order to manipulate the United States immigration system so they can stay. Law enforcement officials from the various agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security have reached out to Breitbart Texas pointing out the new practices being taught to illegal immigrants by smugglers.

An illegal alien who had been previously deported multiple times and then was let out of jail because of a government processing error is now set to stand trial for murder. The Mexican national allegedly killed five people after immigration officials sent a detainer to the wrong jail.