Illegal Aliens News

A year after praising a successful Arizona sheriff's immigration enforcement program the Department of Homeland Security has killed it amid complaints from politically-connected Latino advocates who accuse officers of racial discrimination.

Known as 287(g), the federal program trains local police officers nationwide to enforce immigration laws. The partnership has been effective in drastically reducing violent crime in local communities and aiding in the deportation of thousands of criminal illegal aliens who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

At his press conference , the president was asked about the possibility of closing the Mexican border due to the swine Mexican H1N1 flu: Q: Thank you, Mr.

PAWTUCKET While protesters outside chanted "Tom Tancredo, out of our state, we don't want your racist hate," Tancredo was inside pointing toward the muffled voices and telling an appreciative audience, "they hate the idea of America." The battle lines were drawn on a tidy Fairlawn side street Wednesday as the former Colorado congressman and 2008 ...

Kenneth Featherling recently resigned from the Bureau of Workers' Compensation. Managers of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation stifled an investigation into possible identity theft by illegal immigrants and demoted an investigator who had been pursuing the issue, the investigator alleges in a discrimination case.

Let's start with the bad news. * An extended swine flu will probably prolong the global recession.

The Obama administration is instructing immigration agents to go after employers who knowingly hire and exploit illegal workers.

"Infectious diseases are now spreading geographically much faster than at any time in history.

Maximino Mondragon, 57, was sentenced today for his role in a scheme to smuggle Central American women and girls into the United States and to hold them in a condition of forced labor in the Houston area.

Galen Scott gscott@weatherforddemocrat.com Two suspects were detained under suspicion of human trafficking Sunday after a citizen reported witnessing "hands, arms and fingers" emerging from a tractor-trailer traveling east on Interstate 20.

PHOENIX - Some border county sheriffs want Arizona schools to start asking students whether they're in this country legally.

People wearing protective face masks ride in a city bus as it passes in front of the National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses in Mexico City.

Two weeks after the first known swine flu death, Mexico still hasn't given medicine to the families of the dead.

The U.S. government will warn travellers not to make "non-essential" trips to Mexico, where nearly 150 people have now died as a result of the swine flu outbreak.

Anchor children a weighty part of immigration debate The Issue: Four million children of illegal immigrants are American citizens, making deportation problematic.

The controversial federal immigration program that turned some Mecklenburg County deputies into de-facto immigration agents may soon be replaced with a similar program using better technology.

In a four-day period, 14 illegal immigrants tried to enter the county by presenting fraudulent documents at the U.S. Port of Entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

A northern Indiana company and its president have been placed on federal probation and fined after pleading guilty to knowingly hiring illegal workers.

A jury in federal district court has returned a guilty verdict against LIANG YANG, 37, of Duluth, Georgia on charges of conspiring to transport, harbor and induce illegal aliens to remain in the United States.

There are between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens in the United States. No one has a hard number on how many illegal's are in the country but the Florida Hospital Association says the cost to hospital is staggering and everyone is paying for it.

Over 1,200 miles of international border snakes along the Rio Grande through Texas, giving our state the distinction of holding more international boundary than all other states on the Mexican border combined.