ACLU, Hispanic Groups Decry Senate Proposal to Add Citizenship Questions to 2010 Census Forms

Hispanic groups, labor unions and liberal advocacy groups are opposing an effort to have federal census forms ask questions regarding U.S. citizenship and immigration status...

Judge Gives Life Term to a Killer Who Also Shot Good Samaritan on U.S. 395

...Deputies said Rodriguez wanted to steal Angulo's Honda, and shot the boy while he was riding in the backseat on U.S. 395 near Bellevue Road...

Congress Scrutenizes Problems in Homebuyer Credit

...He said claimants include those who could possibly be illegal immigrants and that 580 people seeking $4 million from the first-time homebuyer credit were under the age of 18. The youngest taxpayers receiving the credit were 4 years old, his office said...

DHS Admits 90 Percent of U.S. Borders Wide Open, Americans Remain at Risk

The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that only 894 miles of this country’s 8,607 miles of America’s land borders, are actually being protected. The announcement came in the agency’s 2009 Performance Report...

Jury Convicts Man of Murdering Woman, 83

A Montgomery County jury convicted a Silver Spring man of beating an 83-year-old woman, then killing her in a fire to cover up a check fraud scheme...

Jacksonville Checks for Illegal Workers at Courthouse Site

Jacksonville officials required every worker on the Duval County Courthouse construction project to fill out a new form Tuesday and get re-certified to work there — part of an effort to crack down on undocumented workers...

Police Chase Ends with Illegal Aliens on the Run

BEXAR COUNTY – Just before 9 a.m. police in Poteet spotted a black Ford Expedition driving too fast along the highway, when an officer attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver floored it, leading police and DPS troopers on a high-speed chase...

Honduran Immigrant Admits Sexually Assaulting 8 Year Old in Wharton

WHARTON -- An undocumented Honduran immigrant, whose bail became the subject of a New Jersey Supreme Court case earlier this year, pleaded guilty today to sexually-assaulting a 8-year-old girl...

Controversy Costs Alhambra Coach Job

Phoenix Alhambra boys cross country coach Carlos Borja lost his position this week in a conflict with the school over his assistant and long-time friend, an illegal immigrant whose status was not discovered until this summer...

Sophisticated Pot Fields a Growing Problem

NESPELEM, Wash. – Some of the most innovative farming techniques in the Northwest are being applied to a cash crop that isn’t wheat, apples or grapes. It’s a low-tech but high-stakes, high-risk venture damaging remote forest ecosystems, creating hazards for hikers and backpackers, recruiting illegal immigrants to tend the “fields” and taxing the resources of local, state and federal law enforcement...

Study Shows Most Brazilian Immigrants Here Illegally

Striking a nerve among both advocates and critics, a recently released study based on 2007 data found an estimated 71 percent of the region's adult Brazilian immigrants living here illegally...

Ohio Seeks Vehicle Owners' US Residency Info (Columbus, Ohio - October 16, 2009)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hispanic leaders are reviewing letters sent by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to determine whether the state is engaging in ethnic profiling and improperly delving into federal immigration matters...

Activists: 'We Simply Cannot Wait Any Longer' on Reforms to US Immigration System

AURORA | A rally on the steps of the Aurora Municipal Center on Tuesday urged the federal government to pass immigration reform that supporters say will scale back immigration raids.

The group, made up of local faith leaders, congressional staff, politicians, labor unions, immigrant rights organizations and community members, was one of a handful around the country to rally Tuesday in support of an immigration reform bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week...

Sexual Assault Suspect ID'ed as Illegal Immigrant

A 32-year-old Cascade man charged last month for allegedly groping an 11-year-old girl is facing a new felony after authorities discovered he is in the country illegally...

Couple Charged with Producing Fake Immigration IDs

FRESNO, Calif. -- United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced that on Thursday, a federal grand jury returned a multiple-count indictment charging Salomon Rodriguez and Veronica Capitaine-Rosales with possession, transfer, production, and sale of fraudulent United States immigration and social security identification documents out of Fresno and Tulare Counties...