The Latest News about Illegal immigration

Several Dominican nationals were indicted Thursday in federal court with various charges of aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number according to the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Massachusetts. According to the Justice Department, the 12 illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic are believed to have obtained stolen identities of United States citizens living ...

  Federal Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 45 illegal aliens in the Houston area for violating U.S. immigration laws during a five-day enforcement action, which ended Friday. The local enforcement operation targeted at-large criminal aliens, many of whom had absconded from prior immigration proceedings. Of the individuals arrested during the operation, ...

A Mexican national was convicted of illegal re-entry and failure to register as a sex offender according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. A federal jury found Ramon Lopez-Alvarado (58), a citizen of Mexico, guilty of one count of illegal re-entry into the United States. Prior to trial, Lopez-Alvarado also pleaded guilty to one count ...

Not only are sanctuary cities wrong, but they’re essentially un-American, said US attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William McSwain on Friday. “When you come before the law in America it’s not supposed to matter who you are or where you’re from, who your parents are or the like, everybody’s supposed to be treated equally,” said McSwain. Appearing on ...

LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents on Aug. 9 encountered two suspicious trucks inside two ranches believed to be involved in alien smuggling activity. As agents attempted to get a closer look of the first vehicle, they observed multiple subjects exiting the vehicle and absconding into the brush. Agents searched the area and subsequently arrested several illegal aliens. The ...

Fox News Channels’ Laura Ingraham sought Thursday night to clarify remarks she made earlier in the week on immigration after a former KKK leader endorsed her comments on immigration. Ingraham, host of “The Ingraham Angle”, said Wednesday night that immigration has changed the country into something other than “the America we know and love.” Watch the latest video at foxnews.com ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested scores of illegal aliens and executed warrants for those that hired them in a multi-state operation Wednesday. A series of criminal arrest warrants were executed for 17 individuals connected to an alleged criminal conspiracy to exploit illegal alien laborers for profit, fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in Nebraska ...

WESLACO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Weslaco Border Patrol Station apprehended a group of 60 illegal aliens near Hidalgo, Texas. On Saturday, agents patrolling along the Rio Grande encountered a large group of illegal aliens consisting of 25 family units (51 total subjects), seven unaccompanied children and two adults. The group was comprised of men, women and ...

Shutting down the government always results in massive controversy – there’s no doubt about it. But over the right issue, could it be beneficial? I think so. Illegal immigration is the issue that would play strong enough politically with Republican voters to allow President Donald Trump to come out on top. Whether or not President Trump and Republicans could win a ...

President Donald Trump reconfirmed his opinion that catch and release is a terrible policy in remarks he made Thursday to the crowd at a Make America Great Again rally in Pennsylvania. Talking about immigration law, Trump attacked catch and release, the policy of releasing an immigrant into the community while he or she awaits hearings in immigration court, instead of holding them ...

Mexican national Alonso Tapia-Gomez entered a guilty plea to the felony offense of Reentry of a Removed Alien, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart on Wednesday. After being deported on four separate occasions, Tapia-Gomez then illegally reentered the United States at least as many times. “One would think that Tapia-Gomez would have gotten the message by now,” said United States Attorney ...

This weekend, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) dismantled two stash houses and foiled four alien smuggling attempts. On Friday, Weslaco agents, alongside the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, disrupted a stash house operation in Edinburg, Texas that resulted in the apprehension of 16 illegal aliens from Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. On Saturday, ...

The GOP’s 2019 Department of Homeland Security spending bill may include $5 billion for a border wall, but some of President Donald Trump’s staunchest backers say it will do far more to undermine his immigration agenda than to advance it.

President Donald Trump delivers his weekly address in which he discusses how America’s lax immigration laws helped enable the 9/11 attacks and that Congress must strengthen those laws immediately. The president also lauded the hard working agents and officials in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In tweeting about the address, the White House also praised the men and women of ...

Commenting on the separation of families along the southern border, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.)  said this “is one of the most reprehensible things I’ve witnessed in my 20 years’ service here.” The New York Democrat even went onto suggest that the individuals affected by family separation should be compensated. “The damage that has been done to these children will be life-long — ...