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Local TV in Orlando, Florida is reporting an explosion at a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.Nothing on the wires yet. Will post more when reported.

The nondescript 737 jet taxied to the front of the runway line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Aboard the flight, 53 passengers stared out windows as their rising plane banked toward Mexico and their handcuffs glinted in the morning sun. This is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Flight Repatriate, a booming airline ferrying illegal immigrants out of the country. Flying worldwide from O'Hare and 22 other airports, the so-called ICE Air planes transported more than 367,000 illegal immigrants, including 11,500 from the Chicago area, out of the U.S. from October 2007 to October 2008—a 26 percent increase over the previous...

Drivers along Interstate 85 on Monday saw an unusual site along the side of the road. Numerous people were lying face down along I- 85 just after the Highway 9 exit. A News Channel 7 photographer was on the scene as 16 people were taken into custody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington D.C. tells News Channel 7 that a Spartanburg County Deputy stopped a van on I-85 and called the ICE team to investigate. 14 men and two women were taken into custody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says all are from Mexico and Quatemala and appear to be in...

How expensive is illegal immigration for the U.S.? The answer may depend on who you ask. Some argue that, overall, illegal immigrants help our economy while others insist their presence creates a fiscal deficit in the billions. Recently, Action 4 News gained exclusive access and insight on the costs of detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. It is just after 4 a.m. But already the nation's largest detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE) in Raymondville, Texas is bustling with activity. The crew has been preparing for hours to deport a group of 132 Hondurans to their country....

The Northern Virginia office of the federal agency that processes immigration applications will hold its first public forum next month to answer questions from immigrants. The forum also is intended to spread word that the agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, is distinct from its feared federal cousins, the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. "We don't want people to fear us," said Greg Christian, director of the Vienna office of USCIS.... The agency is often assailed...as an impenetrable bureaucracy with complicated forms and a help hotline that dispenses unreliable information. It has also recently...

CHICAGO, (AP) -- An illegal immigrant who took refuge in a church for more than a year to avoid deportation has left the sanctuary to attend an immigration rights rally in Los Angeles, her friend said Friday. Elvira Arellano left the church for the first time since seeking sanctuary there Aug. 15, 2006, and was traveling to California by car Friday, Emma Lozano, head of immigration rights group Centro Sin Fronteras, said from Los Angeles. Arellano is accompanied by people close to her, Lozano said, including the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church where she and her...

Rodriguez is hardly alone, say local business owners who cater to Hispanic immigrants. They say state laws aimed at curbing illegal immigration, along with several high-profile raids in Colorado by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials over the past year, have scared away their immigrant clientele.

<p>Title: "VICTORY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS"</p> <p>The decision of a US Federal Judge in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was considered a victory for the illegal aliens when he declared unconstitutional a municipal ordinance that was established to punish and to fine those who employ and those who house people who cannot demonstrate their legal presence in the United States.</p>

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) set new records for enforcement activity, ended the long-standing practice of “catch-and-release” along the borders, launched major new initiatives, transformed its detention and removal process, and improved its intelligence functions. Some milestones include: Total arrests made in worksite enforcement cases was more than seven times greater than in 2002, the last full year of operations for U.S. INS. Ended “Catch-and-Release” for non-Mexican aliens existed for years and was one of the greatest impediments to border control. DHS and ICE re-engineered the detention and removal process to end this practice along the border, an accomplishment considered...

MINNEAPOLIS U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested at least five people from a Minneapolis apartment building yesterday -- setting off protests in the street. After recent arrests in Willmar, the Hispanic community is fearful that raids will be aimed at arresting illegal immigrants. ICE spokesman Tim Counts says the main goal yesterday was to arrest people wanted for criminal offenses, not immigration charges. He would not disclose the nature of the criminal charges. But more than 100 people including community activists went to the area of East Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue to witness the arrests. Many used camcorders...

News Releases May 15, 2007ICE uncovers metropolitan area credit card fraud schemeTwo arrested for allegedly embezzling $6 million from major banks including Bank of America, Citigroup, Wachovia NEWARK, N.J. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents today announced the arrests of two men for allegedly masterminding a significant credit card fraud scheme that resulted in the loss of over $6 million to credit card lenders and banks nationwide. On May 11, special agents from ICE’s Office of Investigations in Newark, N.J., arrested Akbar Wrind, a 54-year-old resident of Bayonne, N.J., and Rafael Marte, a 47-year-old resident of Walnut Port,...

WASHINGTON - About 11 million illegal immigrants were living in the U.S. at the start of this year, the federal government said in a report Friday. That's up from an estimated 8.5 million living in the country in January 2000, according to calculations by the Office of Immigration Statistics in the Department of Homeland Security. The office estimated that 10.5 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States in January 2005 and that the number grew at a national average of 408,000 a year. Estimates of the size of the illegal immigrant population vary widely according to the political...

A man from the Republic of Georgia is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison on a federal detainer after he and another foreigner were found in Murrysville with 15 prepaid cell phones and $4,200 in cash, police said. Malkhaz Zakutashvili, 53, was held through the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Murrysville police Sgt. Charles Tappe said. The federal agency told police not to hold the second man, Zurabi Maisuradze, 25, who is also of the Republic of Georgia, Tappe said.

DULLES, Va. -- An immigration raid at Dulles International Airport resulted in about 50 arrests, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says. Without specifying exactly what jobs the people hold, immigration officials say those arrested work for contractors, and would potentially have access to runways and airplanes. Officials say this operation and others like it aim to guard infrastructure. The agency says it's important to make sure people who work at airports are here legally. Investigation into the workers' immigration status has been going on for a while, leading up to the raid. The arrests have not affected flights or travel to...

Rumors Of Immigration Raids Spark Fear Among Illegal Immigrants April 29, 2006 Email This Story | Print This Story MIAMI -- Thousands of illegal immigrants have stayed home this week amid rumors of immigration roundups. Federal immigration officials said the rumors are unfounded, but fears of random sweeps are rampant from coast to coast. Thousands of immigrants have stayed home from work, taken their children out of school and avoided church. Those absences have caused the rumors to build, as some thought their missing friends and co-workers had been arrested. Construction and agriculture were among the industries most affected by...

A nationwide crackdown on illegal immigrant workers netted some arrests in the Capital Region on Wednesday. And now, one of the workers is speaking out about the raid. All the men are either from Honduras and Mexico and have been living at a home on Western Avenue -- a home they said IFCO provided for them for about $50 a week. While many of the men don't speak English, one of them did. He didn't want his name used, but he said he is 28 years old, from Mexico, and has been living and working in the U.S. illegally for...

Details are very sketchy, but we're told the Department of Homeland Security raided a Northeast Ohio business Wednesday. Gregory Palmore is with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for Ohio and Michigan, and he says there were arrests and detentions as part of an ongoing ICE workforce investigation. Palmore says specifics of Wednesday's activities won't be released until Thursday because the operation is still underway. There are unconfirmed reports that the business is in Rittman in Wayne County, and more than a dozen people may have been arrested. Stay tuned to Newsradio WTAM 1100 for updates as we get more information.

In past commentary on the mass illegal alien protests around the country, we have wondered aloud where Immigration chieftess Julie L. Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been. We've also wondered aloud why ICE agents aren't converging on the mas protests to arrest the illegals. It would be like shooting fish in a barrell and very efficient. Now, we know the answer. We assumed that Julie Myers a/k/a "The ICE Princess" and other Homeland Security officials ordered agents to stay away from the protests and not arrest anyone. Yes, the same ICE Princess who pledged to Congress...

56 ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED BY ICE AT CONSTRUCTION SITE ICE executes a criminal search warrant against Reich Installation Services Inc. CARTHAGE, Mo. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents here arrested 56 illegal aliens this morning following the execution of a criminal search warrant against Reich Installation Services Inc. of Pewaukee, Wis. The search warrant was executed at the Schreiber Foods construction site at 1206 W. Fairview, Carthage, Mo. Reich Installation Services is employed as a sub-contractor at this site. In addition to arresting the aliens working at the site, the criminal search warrant authorized seizure of business, financial...

ICE ARRESTS 375 GANG MEMBERS & ASSOCIATES IN TWO-WEEK ENFORCEMENT ACTION Action is latest under Operation Community Shield, which has yielded 2,388 gang arrests in first year WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a two-week enforcement action that culminated yesterday, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 375 gang members and associates in 23 states in a joint effort with law enforcement agencies nationwide. The arrests are the latest under the auspices of “Operation Community Shield,” a comprehensive initiative launched by ICE roughly one year ago to disrupt and dismantle transnational, violent street...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Nearly five years ago, the U.S. government exerted high-profile diplomatic pressure on China to secure the return of scholar Gao Zhan, a researcher at American University whom Beijing believed was a spy for Taiwan. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing with equal vigor to have her deported back to China. Gao's case, set for a hearing Monday on the latest twist, became international news in February 2001 when she and her family were arrested by the Chinese on suspicion of espionage. Her husband, Xue Donghua, and the couple's 5-year-old son were released after a month...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a ceremony today to unveil the national Money Laundering Threat Assessment, Julie Myers, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), highlighted ICE’s innovative efforts and ongoing commitment to combat those money laundering threats identified in the report. “ICE is proud of its substantial contributions to the government’s first national Money Laundering Threat Assessment. We look forward to working with our partners in formulating a comprehensive strategy to address these threats,” said Assistant Secretary Myers. “Over the past few years, ICE has dramatically expanded its anti-money laundering efforts to address those...

Debbie Schlussel: BREAKING: As PREDICTED by SCHLUSSEL, Unqualified Julie Myers Gets Bush Recess Appt. to Head ICE By Debbie Schlussel DAMN! You heard it here, first. Back in November, we broke the news that Julie L. Myers--President Bush's unqualified nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)--would get a recess appointment. Unfortunately, yet another of our dark predictions has come true (like our Al-Arian-would-walk prediction). Today, the White House announced that President Bush gave Ms. Myers the ultimate undeserved Christmas present over the holidays. Bush gave Julie Myers a recess appointment as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, overseeing ICE. Happy...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US immigration authorities said they discovered 25 undocumented migrants from Latin America being "held hostage" by human smugglers in a Los Angeles neighborhood. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents went to a home in Riverside, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of downtown Los Angeles, where they found 25 migrants crowded into two of the upstairs bedrooms. The migrants, who came from Ecuador, Guatemala, and El Salvador, said they had been held for more than a month and fed only once a day, said ICE spokesman Virginia Kice. "They make people enter the US illegally,"...

Across South Texas, immigrant outlaws traditionally have not had much reason to worry about getting caught. But starting next month, a new team of federal agents will be hitting the streets of San Antonio and other South Texas communities with the sole purpose of tracking them down and deporting them to their native countries. The agents will form the new seven-member "fugitive operations team" run by the San Antonio office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Homeland Security Department and the country's second-largest federal investigative agency after the FBI. Eighteen such teams operate across the country and...

A Saudi national who served as director of the Virginia office of the Muslim World League (MWL) has been deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on immigration charges. ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said Abdullah Alnoshan, 44, of Falls Church, was returned to Saudi Arabia over the weekend. He was arrested in July by ICE and FBI agents assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force. A criminal complaint charged Alnoshan with conspiring to commit immigration fraud by using fake employment documents to enter, exit and live in the United States. Alnoshan also was accused of seeking to deter...

A violent street gang whose members were arrested as part a nationwide sweep by Immigration and Customs officials on Monday had ties to al Qaida, U.S. intelligence officials say. Officials said the Central American gang MS-13 is one of the largest and most violent street gangs in the United States, and the majority of its members are in the country illegally. The gang has carried out beheadings and grenade attacks in Central America and is known to hack their enemies with machetes in cities along the East Coast in the United States. Intelligence officials warned in January that al-Qaida members...

Charged with soliciting funds for terror activity CLEVELAND - U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) today announced the apprehension of an Ohio Imam for his involvement in fundraising for a terrorist organization and for terrorist activity. Fawaz Mohammed Damrah, 44, was arrested early this morning without incident. The charges against Damrah allege that he is removable from the United States on national security grounds for having solicited funds and provided material support for a terrorist organization and for terrorist activity. In 2004, Damrah was convicted and sentenced in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, for unlawfully obtaining his United States...

OHIO IMAM IN ICE CUSTODY Charged with soliciting funds for terror activity CLEVELAND - U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) today announced the apprehension of an Ohio Imam for his involvement in fundraising for a terrorist organization and for terrorist activity. Fawaz Mohammed Damrah, 44, was arrested early this morning without incident. The charges against Damrah allege that he is removable from the United States on national security grounds for having solicited funds and provided material support for a terrorist organization and for terrorist activity. In 2004, Damrah was convicted and sentenced in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, for...

65 MEXICANS DEPORTED BY ICE DETENTION AND REMOVAL 11 convicted predators among the deported MIAMI - Eleven convicted predators were among 65 illegal aliens deported Wednesday to Mexico by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) Office of Detention and Removal. Among the deported was 31-year-old Paulino Juarez-Cortez, a man sentenced to 6 years and 9 months in prison following a July 10, 1997 sexual conviction. He was convicted of sexual battery against a child under 12 years of age and for lewd and lascivious acts against a child under 16 years of age. Juarez-Cortez was found ineligible for any form...

ICE DEPORTS 85 MEXICAN NATIONALS ON WEEKLY FLIGHT Man wanted on murder charges in Mexico turned over to authorities at border CHICAGO - A member of the Norteños 14 street gang wanted for murder in Mexico was one of 85 Mexican nationals deported last Friday by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of its weekly removals. More than two-thirds of those removed, 63, had criminal convictions ranging from homicide and sexual assault to drug possession and burglary. Jorge Delgado-Fernandez, 19, is an illegal alien and a documented member of the violent Norteños 14 street gang. He was...

FORMER CPA OFFICIAL AND CONTRACTOR ARRESTED IN CASE INVOLVING FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME IN IRAQ WASHINGTON, D.C. – A former Coalition Provisional Authority official and a contractor doing business in Iraq have been arrested on charges of conspiring to commit money laundering and wire fraud in connection with a bribery and fraud scheme, the Department of Justice announced today. Robert J. Stein, 50, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was arrested in Fayetteville on Nov. 14, 2005 and is currently in custody there. In 2003 and 2004, Stein was the Comptroller and Funding Officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority – South...

ICE National Gang Enforcement Report October 11 - October 24 The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pleased to announce a major milestone with the arrest of more than 1,500 gang members since Operation Community Shield was launched in February, 2005. We mark this milestone with the latest five arrests taking place in Denver, CO; Charleston, SC; Kansas City, MO; and Wichita, KS. OVERVIEW ICE launched Operation Community Shield in February 2005 to confront the national problem of violent street gangs. The goals of the initiative are to disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute violent street gangs...

Unsubstantiated belief, also known as "religious faith," can produce unwelcome consequences. Among the most potentially dangerous is the belief in a heavenly and eternal afterlife, since this notion inherently degrades and devalues our earthly existence. If no afterlife exists, our lives are finite, unique and precious. There are no second chances or rewards; when we die, we're dead. Alternatively, if an eternal and infinitely preferable life exists subsequent to this one, human life is diminished. An everlasting and flawlessly idyllic afterlife, overflowing with ineffable delights, means that our earthly existence — no matter how long it lasts or relatively good...

Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed that arrests for child sex crimes during the first two years of Operation Predator have exceeded 6,000 and 85 percent of them are criminal immigrants. Operation Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human traffickers. Operation Predator evolved out of ICE’s mission to find and deport illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The majority of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - have involved foreign nationals in this country whose child sex...

THE OTHER TROUBLING NOMINATION By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 05, 2005 01:27 PM Before the quag-Miers, (hat tip: Confederate Yankee for the term) there was the other quag-Myers. That is: Julie Myers, a Bush lawyer with virtually no immigration and customs enforcement experience and minimal managerial experience who has been nominated to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. She just happens to be niece of recently retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers/wife of DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's chief of staff/former employee of Chertoff and outgoing ICE head Michael Garcia. Here's the latest Capitol Hill...

President Bush's nominee to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drawn the ire of several ICE supervisors and agents who say she is "unqualified" because she has never held a law-enforcement management position. The nomination of Julie L. Myers "just doesn't pass the smell test and is another indication that this administration created the Department of Homeland Security as window dressing and does not care whether ICE is successful," said Matthew Issman, national legislative vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA). "What we need is a strong, law-enforcement leader, not another inexperienced, well-connected lawyer with friends...

. . . Undercover federal agents, working with confidential informants, posed as black-market suppliers of the cigarettes. They also filled orders for Enfamil infant formula and EBT (food-stamp) cards that were used to buy merchandise that was resold at local convenience stores, according to court records. The sting resulted in the prosecution of nearly two dozen people, most of whom were indicted Wednesday on charges that they participated in a conspiracy that operated in an underground market for cigarettes. The indictment alleges they conspired to receive, transport, possess, sell and distribute about 9.6 million cigarettes [. . .] The arrests...

AREA MAN INDICTED FOR ROLE IN THREAT ON FEDERAL BUILDING Man claimed former girlfriend was planning to bomb immigration office FRESNO, Calif. – A Salvadoran national indicted for contacting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and claiming that his former girlfriend was going to drive a car bomb into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office made his initial appearance in federal court here this morning. On August 16, ICE agents received an anonymous call from a man later identified as Hugo Vasquez-Cruz, 45. Vazquez told agents that a woman named Asusena Kalah was upset with immigration and planned...

NEW JERSEY MAN GETS JAIL TIME IN CONNECTION WITH ILLEGAL MONEY TRANSFER SCHEME THAT MOVED $100 MILLION TO PAKISTAN -- Fourth of six defendants sentenced in the ICE / IRS investigation -- NEWARK, N.J. - A key player in a scheme to illegally transfer more than $100 million to Pakistan through a New Jersey money transmittal business has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Umer Darr, a Pakistani native and naturalized U.S. citizen of Bayonne, N.J, was sentenced earlier...

NEW YORK CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST ARRESTED FOR CHILD PORN -- Arrest is latest in global Internet child pornography probe that has netted more than 1,200 -- LONG ISLAND, N.Y. - The Suffolk County Police Department Computer Crimes Section and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Resident Agent-in-Charge Office in Long Island today announced the arrest of a Long Island-based child psychologist for possession of child pornography. Peter Mies, 57, of 38 Jay Court, Northport, New York, was arrested this morning by Suffolk County detectives and ICE agents as a result of a joint, ongoing investigation into the receipt and possession...

HIGH-RANKING MS-13 GANG MEMBER ARRESTED BY ICE IN BOSTON BOSTON-Officers assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) fugitive operations division arrested a member of the violent “Mara Salvatrucha” (MS-13) gang here yesterday. Herberth Escobar-Leiva, a 29-year-old citizen of El Salvador who goes by the street name “Perro,” was ordered removed by a federal immigration judge on Sept. 19, 2002. He failed to depart the U.S. as required by law and ICE subsequently issued a warrant of removal. Escobar-Leiva has been identified by police as a high-ranking member of the MS-13. He has an extensive criminal history of over 20...

ICE HELPS BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES NAB 48 INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SMUGGLING RING-AIRLINE EMPLOYEES AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS AMONG THE ARRESTED- MIAMI- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF), and the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) announced today that a 16-month international human smuggling investigation culminated this morning with the arrests of 48 individuals linked to a international smuggling ring operating out of Brazil and stretching as far as Miami, Mexico City, Amsterdam, and Bangkok. More than 600 DPF officers in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Governador Valadares and Ipatinga conducted the operation. In addition to the arrests, the...

ICE DEPORTS 116 MEXICAN NATIONALS ON WEEKLY FLIGHT Two men wanted on murder charges in Mexico were aboard this flight CHICAGO - Two men wanted by the Mexican government on murder charges were two of 116 Mexican nationals deported last Friday by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of its weekly removals. Nearly half of those removed, 52, had criminal convictions for violations ranging from homicide and sexual assault to drug possession and burglary. This large number of removals in one week reflects the national trend of increased deportations as ICE pursues its objective of restoring integrity to...

ulie Myers is 36 years old, a lawyer and a political appointee to the Bush administration with limited executive experience. Yet, she is slated to become head of one of the nation's most critical security-related agencies, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Myers appointment, in the wake of FEMA's disastrous handling of the Katrina Hurricane and the resignation of its chief, Michael Brown, has people from both sides of the political aisle raising hackles. "The Bush administration has barely rebounded from the resignation of horse show organizer Michael ‘Heck...

Jacksonville (N.C.) Daily News Aug. 24, 2005 More undocumented workers found By Chris Mazzolini An additional 18 undocumented workers were apprehended and later released Tuesday during gate searches at Camp Lejeune, a base spokesman said, bringing the total since last week to 57. The workers Tuesday were photographed, fingerprinted, checked by military police for outstanding warrants and then released off base property, said Maj. Cliff Gilmore, a spokesman for II Marine Expeditionary Force. None of the workers had criminal records, he said. "We had no security-threat reason to hold them," Gilmore said. It's the same process the base undertook last...

WASHINGTON -- Fifteen years after liberal Democrats pressured Congress to pass new immigration laws, we face the consequences of our legislators "humanitarianism." We see it across our country in the scores of killings and maimings carried out by Salvadoran gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and in the frightening possibility of an invasion of Colombian revolutionaries. The 1990 law allowed illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia to be given Temporary Protected Status (TPS). They broke laws coming into the United States illegally, did not pay taxes and lied when they were job-hunting. But they could not be deported. They...

News Release August 15, 2005 ICE ARRESTS 25 CHILD SEX OFFENDERS IN CHICAGO AREA CHICAGO—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents, working with area county law enforcement authorities, last week arrested 25 foreign-born, convicted sex offenders who had preyed on children and minors. Those arrested include citizens of six countries: Mexico (18), Bosnia (3), Philippines (1), Peru (1), Ireland (1), and Canada (1). They include 15 permanent residents of the U.S. (“green card” holders), nine individuals who entered the U.S. illegally, and one person who entered the U.S. on a visitor’s visa but violated its terms by overstaying. All...

MEXICAN SEX OFFENDER AND SIX-TIME DEPORTEE IN ICE CUSTODYArrested following high-speed chase; possesses extensive criminal history  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A complaint was issued today on an admitted Mexican gang member, convicted child sex offender and six-time deportee who was arrested last week by Cedar County Sheriff's Department a day after a high-speed chase with Missouri Highway patrol, and ultimately turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Roberto Madrigal-Lopez, 33, and his passenger fled to nearby woods following the Aug. 2 wreck of their vehicle during the high-speed chase. Upon his Aug. 3 arrest, Madrigal-Lopez originally claimed to be Carlos...

WASHINGTON Federal agents have dealt a serious blow to the violent Honduran street gang known as M-S-13.Using information from local and state law enforcement agencies, federal agents charged 103 members with a range of criminal and immigration counts.The arrests came in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Newark, Miami and Dallas metropolitan areas over the last several weeks.The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which headed up the operation, calls M-S-13 one of the largest and most violent street gangs in the U-S with the majority of its members in the country illegally.The gang has carried out beheadings and grenade...