DHS expanded family detention last year in response to the unprecedented run on the border by illegal immigrant adults with children. The government had pointed to detention as a deterrent to the ongoing influx of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border — which has seen more than 108,000 family unit members apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. over the past two fiscal years.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott admonished Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez over her recent decision to consider honoring immigration detainers on a “case-by-case” basis. The Governor said sanctuary city policies like this will “no longer be tolerated in Texas.”
On Wednesday, an illegal immigrant who accosted a 13-year-old girl on Sunday evening in Milford, Michigan was arrested and taken into federal custody, but it took three days for ICE to get involved in the process.
A criminal justice reform bill under consideration in Congress could lead to the release of criminal aliens, say warnings from immigration-enforcement officers and crime experts. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015” would reduce prison sentences
An Afghan military officer, who deserted last month while participating in a U.S.-based training program, was apprehended by federal authorities on an Amtrak train en route to Washington state, according to U.S. Border Patrol.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it detained more than 300 criminal aliens in Florida during a three-week operation that concluded at the end of September.
As Senate Republicans prepare to take on cities that do not comply with federal immigration authorities, the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that the approximately 340 so-called sanctuary cities in the U.S. have been releasing about 1,000 criminal aliens, combined, monthly.
Activist immigration groups are firing racial profiling allegations against Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.
DeRay McKesson, one of the top organizers for the Black Lives Matter movement, is seeking a meeting with presidential aspirant Marco Rubio. The request for a meeting follows comments in which Rubio seemed to lend his personal support to the group’s anti-cop rhetoric.
Media supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are praising Sen. Marco Rubio for comments he made seeming to express support for their anti-police organizing.
Federal authorities finishing a two-state immigration sweep announced this week that one fourth of the 79 illegals arrested were found in a single Michigan county, and all of them had a criminal record.
A convicted burglar from Mexico with a history of repeated felony convictions and deportations is back in Texas. Arturo Oleague Martinez, 48, was arrested by federal agents last week at the county jail in this border city and taken before a U.S. Magistrate Judge. He was charged with one count of illegally re-entering the country.
Los Angeles Kings hockey player Slava Voynov’s problems escalated on Thursday when the Seal Beach Police Detention Center released him to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
U.S. immigration authorities on Friday deported a Salvadoran gang member wanted in his country in the slaying of a government prosecutor, officials said.
Over 240 illegally present foreign nationals, including previously deported sexual offenders, were taken into custody over the course of four days last week when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials out of the Los Angeles area conducted an operation in California’s Southland.
The law enforcement operation resulted in 17 arrests in El Salvador, seven in Guatemala and 12 in Mexico. Additionally officials discovered 39 illegal immigrants — including 10 unaccompanied minors — and seized 20 properties in Guatemala and 2 in Mexico worth an estimated $2 million combined. Authorities also seized a slew of items associated with smugglers, including vehicles, weapons, boats and approximately $200,000 in approximate in bulk cash and bank accounts.
The four-day enforcement action took place last week. Fifty-six percent of the arrestees had serious and/or violent felony convictions including sex crimes against children, weapons charges, and drug convictions. The remaining 44 percent had “significant or multiple misdemeanors.” Four of the criminal immigrants had been previously deported and illegally reentered the U.S., including a Mexican national convicted of “sexual abuse with force” in New York.
Arizona’s top Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor, whose discrimination case against the Department of Homeland Security revealed internal unrest in the face of the Obama administration’s diluted immigration enforcement efforts, has settled for nearly $400,000, according to the New York Times.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has turned an illegal immigrant apprehended in northern California and accused of murder in Mexico over to Mexican authorities.
In an interview with Breitbart News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson expanded upon the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of his comments on the border. He castigated the U.S. government for doing so little to protect Americans against a growing number of illegals
New federal immigration policies are endangering our nation’s communities by forcing the release of criminal aliens back into the community. These are the words of Jackson County, Texas, Sheriff Aj (Andy) Louderback, who appeared on the nationally syndicated Laura Ingraham Radio Show on Thursday.
Ten illegal immigrants were rescued and captured in New Braunfels, Texas, Tuesday morning, when police found them on a north-bound Union Pacific freight train. New Braunfels is located almost 200 miles away from the Texas/Mexico border.
An Arizona sheriff is sounding the alarm about three violent criminal aliens released into the state, and charging the Obama administration with not doing enough to keep such offenders off the streets.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested one of its “Most Wanted” fugitives — a convicted sex offender from El Salvador — in Virginia.
On Sunday, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released his long-awaited detailed immigration plan. Many, including this author, have criticized Trump for his lack of details and his vagaries on key issues including immigration. Those criticisms are now obsolete – Trump’s immigration plan is highly specific.
Illegal alien Victor Martinez (Ramirez) is one of two men that could face the death penalty in California for first-degree murder in the brutal rape and bludgeoning–with a claw hammer–of 64-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran Marilyn Pharis.
A previously convicted drug trafficking illegal alien is back in jail after being deported three times. He is, once again, facing immigration charges after yet another arrest.
Andrew Free, the immigration lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told the AP that the government’s use of family detention violates their rights and that the government fails to provide the “standard of care that they owe to these detainees. We expect this will be the first in a large set of filings on the mistreatment of these women and children on behalf of the government.”
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s driver license has been suspended for failing to report a traffic accident that he was involved in last October.
On Friday, Santa Maria Police Chief Ralph Martin blasted state and federal policies for enabling an illegal alien to avoid deportation and brutally rape and beat to death a 64-year-old Air Force veteran.
While immigration has become perhaps the dominant issue of the 2016 election, in last night’s debate Fox News’ moderators asked surprisingly few questions on the subject.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is losing track illegal immigrants released from jails and family detention centers. ICE does not know how many immigrant families they let go and they do not seem to know where the ones they let go went. Many of these families have been released in Texas. New removal enforcement policies have let to criminal aliens simply being released from jails across the country.
Of the tens of thousands illegal immigrant family units that streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border last year and were released into the U.S., just a fraction have been removed, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.
Amnesty advocates are complaining about the use of GPS ankle monitors on illegal aliens detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the border.
A California court ruling could set free more than 1,700 women and children who are being held by the Department of Homeland Security in facilities in the town of Dilley and Karnes County, Texas. As of Monday, immigration judges were getting the word out to release these families, as part of a court decision in California that struck down the Obama administrations policy regarding the handling of Central American illegal immigrant families and unaccompanied minors.
Sanctuary cities are only part of the problem behind the deadly illegal alien crisis. Barack Obama’s administration has instituted “sanctuary” as a national policy.
The Obama administration is set to put a new illegal immigrant deportation policy into place that will reduce the level of deportations to even lower levels than the reductions he instituted earlier this year.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña said that she doesn’t want to “hit somebody over the head with a federal hammer” with regard to sanctuary communities and refused to state what negative consequences she would support placing on sanctuary
Mexican illegal alien Aurelio Hernandez-Gomez pled guilty to third degree criminal sexual conduct in Michigan on Thursday after authorities found him with a 13-year-old Florida girl he allegedly kidnapped days before.
Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors responsible for sanctuary city policies that have become controversial again in the wake of the July 1 shooting death of Kate Steinle by an illegal alien are defending those policies, calling for gun
