Illegal Immigration News

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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Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo MDPM101 By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON A House Democrat is accusing President Barack Obama of dehumanizing illegal immigrants with his hard-line stance against allowing them to benefit from pending health overhaul legislation.

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 ...