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An 85-year-old woman who led a female-dominated immigrant-smuggling ring was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday. Felicitas Gurrola was charged with moving up to 80 people a month past border inspectors at the nation's busiest border crossing in ...

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NEWARK, N.J. Officials from several federal, state and local agencies, as well as immigration lawyers and advocates, met in Newark on Thursday to expand nationwide a campaign that started in seven cities. It focuses on enforcement, education and ...

Move over Arizona and Alabama, because Florida, the home of nearly a million Cuban refugees and their descendants, has come up with perhaps the most bizarre and pointless anti-immigration policy of all, writes Linda Greenhouse in the New York Times ...

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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. After confusion and misgivings from some police about how to enforce Alabama's new immigration crackdown, the state is requiring special training in the law for all its 16,000-plus sworn law officers. Officials hope the unusual ...

Immigration services scams are getting so sophisticated that fraudsters now advertise online with websites that perfectly mimic those of official government agencies, federal officials said Thursday as they rolled out a nationwide awareness campaign ...

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Earlier this month, my colleagues Christina Lagdameo, Deputy Director for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Alicia Villarreal, Regional Representative for Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, joined me at the California ...

Ed. Note: Cross posted from the Department of Homeland Security blog. Today, we were honored to join 50 U.S. permanent residents as they took the Oath of Allegiance to become U.S. citizens in the heart of our nations capital. This special ...

BIRMINGHAM -- Two men visiting Alabama to protest the state's tough new law on illegal immigration walked into a U.S. Border Patrol office and said they were in the country illegally, resulting in their arrest. They remain in federal custody more than ...

On July 28th and 29th, Administration officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council and the Departments of Education and Labor held three outreach sessions with immigrant students and workers, service and advocacy organizations, policy makers ...

Every year, communities across America come together to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution, and our newest citizens who everyday breathe new life our nation as a part of Constitution and Citizenship Day, Constitution Week September 17th ...

NEWARK, N.J. Immigration services scams are getting so sophisticated that fraudsters now advertise online with websites that perfectly mimic those of official government agencies, federal officials said Thursday as they rolled out a nationwide ...

When Newt Gingrich said he'd like to find a way for illegal immigrants who have been in the United States for more than 25 years to stay in the country, just how many people was the GOP presidential candidate talking about? The Pew Hispanic Center tried ...

If "father and working man" Gabino Sanchez puts a face on illegal immigration, Pew Research Center provides some background about his cohort. A report based on Census Bureau data and Pew Hispanic Center research finds that 63 percent of the estimated ...

NEWARK Federal immigration officials are expanding nationally a program to raise awareness about immigration services scams. Officials from several federal, state and local agencies discussed the plan in Newark today. The awareness campaign focuses on ...

Gabino Sanchez came from Mexico to the United States when he was 14 years old. For the next 13 years, he worked construction and landscaping jobs in South Carolina to support his wife and two children, who are legal U.S. citizens. Sanchez is not. ...