A mother strip-searched in front of her teenage son; parents stalked by immigration officials outside of their children's elementary school; a man shoved into a wall so hard that the plaster cracks; and a pregnant woman denied medication. Troubling signs of potential police misconduct? ...
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DHS said that Secure Communities was opt-in and would only target criminal immigrants. In reality, it has led to the deportation of thousands of innocents and is now required for all states and localities.
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Immigration advocates and civil liberties groups are gearing up for a new battle after the feds said cops across America must send fingerprints of everyone they book.Washington's decree last week squashed Gov. Cuomo's decision to back out of the Secure Communities program.
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A Polish woman whose family was separated after the U.S. denied her a green card and deported her returned to the U.S. Monday with her American-born son, reuniting with the husband and father they'd been away from for four years.
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In August 2001, Governor Rick Perry stopped by Edinburg, Texas, to deliver a speech before a gathering of Mexican and United States officials on issue related to the border. Emphasizing the cultural and economic connections between the two nations, Perry called for easing of restrictions on border traffic to...
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About a decade ago, a federal prosecutor in Texas asked Edmond Demiraj to testify against an Albanian mobster charged with human smuggling. Mr. Demiraj had information: He had worked with the mobster, Bill Bedini, in a construction business.
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Some 30 immigrant families accused Monday the Cook Country sheriff's office and the Chicago Police Department of violating an ordinance that bars them from acting as agents of federal immigration authorities.
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Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered the expulsion of a man who is the primary caregiver to his AIDS-afflicted spouse.
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On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security unilaterally cancelled its Memorandum of Agreements (MOA) on Secure Communities (S-COMM), an immigration enforcement program of the Obama administration that was sold to state governments as a way to identify and deport serious criminals. Over the past several months, Governor Patrick...
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Federal immigration officials announced Friday that they were terminating the joint agreements with state and local governments that have been at the center of a controversy surrounding a national fingerprint-sharing program, although they said they would continue setting up the program unilaterally.
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