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...

Senator Chuck Schumer to Lead New Effort at Immigration Reform

A major effort to swing at least five key Republican senators behind immigration reform will be the key task of Senator Charles Schumer of New York, who is leading the effort in the senate to create new legislation...

Schumer Stepping in to Fill Kennedy Role as the Immigration Champion

Sen. Chuck Schumer will be primarily responsible for writing a new comprehensive immigration reform bill for Senate consideration this year, a new role on an issue that's stalled twice in recent years...

Democrats Considering Health Care-Immigration Deal to Overcome Key Sticking Point

Lawmakers who want to extend health coverage to illegal immigrants will not block the passage of the final health care reform bill so long as the White House offers a substantive promise to start pushing comprehensive immigration legislation this year...

Millard County Deputy Shot, Killed; 2nd Person of Interest Sought

Police searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Millard County sheriff's deputy did not find the man in a Salt Lake City neighborhood Tuesday morning and now have added a second person of interest in the case...

Sen. Schumer's "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" Ignores the Lessons of 9/11

A news article "Chicago immigration agency a front for terror plot..." in the Chicago Tribune addresses one of the major issues I have been hammering ever since I went public in the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001- vulnerabilities in the process by which applications for visas and immigration benefits are adjudicated, encouraging massive levels of fraud and consequently a huge threat to national security. In this case the focus is on an individual by the name of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the owner of First World Immigration Services that, according to federal prosecutors was involved in procuring visas for citizens of Pakistan by lying on their applications for visas. Fraud can be thought of as a lie placed on an application concerning a material fact that, had the truth been known, would have prevented the applicant from receiving the benefit he (she) applied for...

Lawsuit Targets CBP

Immigration attorneys are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection that could have widespread implications along the U.S.-Mexico border. The issue involves U.S. citizens who say they were held for long hours at ports of entry in South Texas and denied entry into the country after they presented birth certificates registered by midwives...

Grandmother Led Big Green-Card Marriage Scam

Immigration attorneys are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection that could have widespread implications along the U.S.-Mexico border. The issue involves U.S. citizens who say they were held for long hours at ports of entry in South Texas and denied entry into the country after they presented birth certificates registered by midwives...

Abandoned Boat Believed Used for Smuggling Immigrants Found on Aliso Beach

An abandoned capsized boat found on Aliso Beach is believed to have carried at least a dozen illegal immigrants who made their way to shore and to a waiting van, Laguna Beach police said.

The 18-foot skiff was discovered by a resident at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. He said he saw the boat wash ashore and that several people ran out of it, some of them wearing life jackets, said Lt. Jason Kravetz...

Gwinnett Sheriff: Illegal Immigrant Program Successful

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway said the jail population is down and fewer illegal immigrants are committing crimes.

Conway said it's all because of the highly controversial 287(g) program.

That's the federal program that allows cops to detain and deport people who are in the country illegally.

Man is Charged in Fatal Christmas Wreck

A man believed to be in the country illegally has been charged with vehicular homicide by intoxication in connection with a fatal Christmas morning wreck.

Ramon Nerl Olea, 22, was northbound on Haywood Lane at 8:30 a.m. when he lost control of his car and crashed into a vehicle driven by Moni Rai, 22, police said in a news release...