In the many years before technology enabled virtually instant checks of a person's immigration status, untold numbers of immigrants — legal and illegal — committed crimes, did their time and were released. But federal immigration officials are now targeting them, as well, and in a three-day sweep by...
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Jan 28, 2011
The new majority in the House of Representatives seems to have found a solution to the problem of high unemployment: workplace immigration raids.
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A high-level immigration official says it costs $12,500 to arrest, detain and deport each person removed from the U.S.
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Nov 11, 2010
Luis Guerra swore he had nothing to do with any murder, that whoever picked him out of a lineup was wrong. Still, he was held at the Rikers Island jail for more than a year before the charges were dropped. It didn't end there.
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New York - few would dispute - is a city of immigrants. That's what makes it so difficult to understand the city's collaboration with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of innocent people and cruelly divide families.
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Oct 14, 2010
There is no greater right than the ability to be safe and secure in our neighborhood and in our own lives. So it pains me when officials use words like "secure" to describe programs that do just the opposite.
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Oct 6, 2010
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that in the past year it has deported a record number of unauthorized immigrants - more than 392,000, about half of whom were convicted criminals.
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Oct 5, 2010
More illegal immigrants with criminal convictions are being deported in recent years, driving up the number of people being removed from the United States, according to data from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Sep 7, 2010
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air
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A concession by the nation's immigration authorities is a win, no doubt. But the battle over what should have been a no-brainer demonstrates we still have a ways to go before we have an effective policy for dealing with immigration.
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