Illegal Immigration News

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 ...