Illegal immigrants plead guilty to assault

MIDDLETOWN - Two illegal immigrants pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of providing a teenage girl with alcohol and then sexually assaulting her.

Patrico William Matute, 36, of Clinton and Carlos Celi 29, of Guilford, making their first appearances in court since their January arrest and arraignment, made the pleas through their lawyers in Middlesex Superior Court. Celi is represented by Middletown Public Defender James McKay while attorney Norm Pattis represents Matute.

The men were arrested by Clinton police and members of the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Jan. 7. The arrests stem from a four-month investigation in which a 19-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in Clinton...

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ICE Allowed the Release of 890 Imprisoned Deportable Aliens, Convicted of Serious Crimes, Into U.S. in FY 2009

(CNSNews.com) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failed to identify more than 800 criminal alien convicts eligible for deportation before they were released from U.S. prisons, including “many” of “the most egregious criminal aliens, who pose a significant pubic safety risk,” according to a report by the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

According to the report, released on Feb. 4, ICE’s Criminal Alien Program, or CAP, “is responsible for identifying criminal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons and jails who are eligible for removal from the United States.”

In fiscal year 2009, CAP failed to identify 890 criminal aliens eligible for removal from the United States, according to the report. These criminals had been incarcerated in facilities in Texas and California and were released back into U.S. society...

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Graham, McCain flirting with immigration reform support

Two Republican senators who took a hard right turn against immigration reform last spring are signaling they may be prepared to revisit comprehensive immigration reform in the new Congress.

Of course, the GOP-controlled House would most likely never pass an immigration bill erecting a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. But GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are nonetheless hinting that the Senate may attempt reform anyway...

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lllegal alien charged with molesting Oregon boy may have more victims

On December 21, 2010, Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies were sent to the Beef Bend Court Apartments to investigate a report of an 11-year-old boy being molested. Two days later, deputies arrested Doroteo Perez-Tapia, 54, and charged him with first-degree sexual abuse.

Perez-Tapia works as the maintenance man for the apartment complex, and according to the deputies, the boy was working with him in a vacant apartment when the abuse took place...

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The Murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry - Is the Government Covering Something Up with its Silence?

It has been nearly two months since US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was senselessly murdered in the darkness of the Arizona desert by Mexican bandits. Agent Terry was part of an elite BORTAC team assigned to patrol this region in search of these bandits who have been preying on illegal immigrants and drug dealers. The BORTAC team was ambushed by the bandits and Agent Terry was shot in the back and died from his wounds. Some serious questions are being raised by Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and many others about this incident and the government's apparent cover up or silencing of information about this case...

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State senator threatened

INDIANAPOLIS — State Sen. Mike Delph has received an e-mail saying the man suspected of shooting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords should have instead targeted someone like him, and the Indiana Senate has asked state police to investigate.

The e-mail rails against a contentious immigration bill the Carmel Republican is pushing and refers to him and the country in derogatory terms. It is addressed to “Senator Racist Delph” and mentions Delph’s wife and five daughters by name, saying that a man with a family “should know better than to break families!!”...

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Surge of immigrants from India baffles border officials in Texas

Thousands from India have entered Texas illegally from Mexico in the last year. Most are Sikhs who claim religious persecution at home.

Reporting from Harlingen, Texas — Thousands of immigrants from India have crossed into the United States illegally at the southern tip of Texas in the last year, part of a mysterious and rapidly growing human-smuggling pipeline that is backing up court dockets, filling detention centers and triggering investigations.

The immigrants, mostly young men from poor villages, say they are fleeing religious and political persecution. More than 1,600 Indians have been caught since the influx began here early last year, while an undetermined number, perhaps thousands, are believed to have sneaked through undetected, according to U.S. border authorities.