Drug Suspect is No Kid, Judge Rules (Columbus, Ohio - January 14, 2009)

An undocumented worker awaiting trial on federal drug charges was 30 years old at the time of his arrest last year in Columbus, not a juvenile, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

Rigoberto Gomez Gomez's age became an issue after he was charged in September with drug trafficking, money laundering and operating a criminal enterprise...

Cop Halts Rape by Illegal Alien

BENSALEM, Pa. — An alert police officer saved a damsel in distress from an attack by a fugitive illegal alien, who is now behind bars.

The attack occurred Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Kohl’s department store on Street Road...

VIDEO: Debate over officers asking about immigration status

(Dayton, Ohio - January 14, 2010)

Illegal Alien Cop Murderer Has Huge Criminal Record

In a case that resembles many others nationwide, an illegal immigrant who recently murdered a Utah law enforcement officer has an extensive criminal record and multiple deportation orders yet remained in the U.S. undetected.

The tragic incident accentuates the lingering weaknesses in the federal immigration enforcement system and lack of collaboration by local municipalities that protect illegal aliens with official sanctuary policies and other less formal don’t-ask-don’t tell practices...

Deportation Likely for 3 Ex-Workers at a Catawba Construction Site (Port Clinton, Ohio - January 13, 2010)

CATAWBA ISLAND — When Catawba Island Township Police investigated trespassing at a construction site on Carolina Street around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, they found three men who turned out to be illegal immigrants, according to a spokesman for the Catawba Island Township.

The men, who had been working at the site earlier, did not speak English and the U.S. Border Patrol responded to translate, the spokesman said. One of the men had a passport and the other two had Guatemalan driver’s licenses, the spokesman said, though their documents did not check out properly...

NY Immigrant Sentenced in DWI Homicide Case

CARMEL, N.Y. (AP) - A New York man who killed a mother and daughter while driving drunk, heightening the debate over illegal immigration, has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison.

He is likely to face deportation to Guatemala when his time is served...

Sheriff Decries Burdens of Illegal Immigration

Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said illegal immigration is affecting society in a number of ways, and cited three cases at a media roundtable discussion Tuesday involving identity theft and rape.

"This is a reoccurring theme with illegal immigration," he said. "There are devastating consequences to society."...

Illegal Immigration: It's Illegal

Blue hats are blue. Big trees are big. Do you agree with these statements? How about this one: Illegal immigration is illegal. For some reason, this point has been a contentious issue in the United States over the past few years...

Another Plug for Amnesty Misses the Costs

Ever since President Barack Obama made a campaign promise to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform early in his presidency, there has been a series of studies aimed at making the economic case for another amnesty. The newest, a study by the Center for American Progress (CAP), claims that legalizing the 11 million illegal immigrants inside the United States would increase GDP by at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

Touting amnesty as an economic stimulus is weak on several points. First, these studies almost across the board assume that legalized individuals will contribute more than the taxpayer dollars they receive. The Heritage Foundation, however, has found that illegal immigrants take in $32,138 in immediate benefits and services for every $9,686 in taxes they pay out. This scenario is likely to worsen as these individuals become eligible for government benefits only permitted to legal residents of the United States. This is largely because immigrants are disproportionately low-skilled (even the CAP report recognizes this fact), and low-skilled workers draw more heavily on government welfare and income maintenance services than higher skilled workers...

VIDEO: Chris Simcox Discusses illegal immigration, breaking away from identity-based politics

NY Immigrant Sentenced in DWI Homicide Case

CARMEL, N.Y. (AP) - A New York man who killed a mother and daughter while driving drunk, heightening the debate over illegal immigration, has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison.

He is likely to face deportation to Guatemala when his time is served...

Illegal Immigration - A Crime That Pays

When I was a kid I often heard the saying, “Crime doesn’t pay.” And back then, such was usually the case. Though there were most certainly exceptions, in general, it seemed to me as though most criminals eventually paid for their crimes. And back then, it also seemed to me that most people believed that’s the way it should be. Boy, how things have changed...

Is Short Drug-Trafficking Suspect a Small Adult, or Juvenile? Judge to Decide (Columbus, Ohio - January 13, 2010)

Rigoberto Gomez Gomez is among the smallest inmates in the Franklin County jail.

Though jail records list him at 5 feet tall, a psychologist who interviewed him filed a report estimating his height at 4 feet 8 and his weight at less than 90 pounds...

Officers Ordered Not to Ask for Immigration Status (Dayton, Ohio - January 11, 2010)

DAYTON - City police officers are now prohibited from asking the immigration status of a witness or victim of a crime in hopes it eases fears some ethnic groups have of law enforcement...

Robot Border Guards to Patrol Future Frontiers

A MIGRANT makes a furtive dash across an unwalled rural section of a national border, only to be confronted by a tracked robot that looks like a tiny combat tank - with a gimballed camera for an eye. As he passes the bug-eyed droid, it follows him and a border guard's voice booms from its loudspeaker. He has illegally entered the country, he is warned, and if he does not turn back he will be filmed and followed by the robot, or by an airborne drone, until guards apprehend him...

Detained Immigrants Were Set to Clear Gillette Snow

Dozens of immigrants pulled over Wednesday in Foxborough during a federal search for fugitives from deportation were on their way to Gillette Stadium to shovel snow before this weekend’s New England Patriots playoff game, Guatemala’s consul in Rhode Island said yesterday...

Illegal Immigrants Taken Into Custody Following Crash

DWIGHT TOWNSHIP — Two Mexican men reportedly working at an area dairy farm were taken into custody by police early Tuesday morning following a two-vehicle accident along Stoddard Road...

Deputy's Murder Highlights Utah's Illegal Immigration Problem

SALT LAKE CITY -- We're learning even more about the man accused of shooting and killing a Millard County sheriff's deputy Tuesday. In addition to numerous drug convictions, Roberto Roman's background also includes the fact that he was deported from the United States in 1998...

Once-Deported Illegal Alien Kills Female Deputy

The fallen deputy has been identified as Deputy Sheriff Josie Greathouse Fox of the Millard County Sheriff’s Office.

Update: Millard Country Sheriff Robert A. Dekker has informed the media that the shooter, Roberto Miramontes Roman, is a Mexican national, has been previously arrested for theft charges and has been previously deported from the United States as an illegal immigrant...

Let's Make a Deal: Immigration Reform

So why don’t President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to allow CSPAN to televise the final health care negotiations? What deals are being made to secure the votes necessary to pass a plan that vast majorities of the American public are against?...

Suspects in Deputy Slaying Nabbed, Asleep in Beaver County Shed

A 37-hour manhunt through several counties ended swiftly and peacefully Wednesday morning when a tip led Beaver County deputies to two men wanted in the death of a Millard County sheriff's deputy...

Will Obama Give Illegals Health Care With Amnesty?

A report from the nation's capital suggests the White House is working on a deal that would offer immigration reform advocates citizenship for illegal aliens in exchange for support of the health care bill...

Drunk Driver Sentenced in Deadly Accident

KENT COUNTY - The man accused of hitting an elderly man while driving drunk will now spend several years behind bars...

Illegal Alien Charged With Molesting 13-Year-Old Girl

Early Christmas morning, deputies in Osceola County arrested Mexican national Carlos Urbano Teran-Ponce, 34, outside the home of his alleged teenaged victim.

About 4:00 a.m., the girl’s mother walked into the 13-year-old’s bedroom and caught Teran-Ponce, who tried to leave. However, the woman blocked his pickup truck with her vehicle and called 911.

The arrest report states: "Once inside, they [the deputies] found the victim … curled on the living room floor crying.”

The victim told detectives that Teran-Ponce, a friend of the girl’s mother, gave her a mixed drink with tequila before she went to bed. She also said that he had molested her at least 20 times before the Christmas Day attack...