Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Sheriff Accused Of Suggesting Domestic Abuse Victims For Deportation

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Garfield County Sheriff, Video, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Domestic Violence Victims Deported, Garfield County, Deporting Domestic Abuse Victims, Ice, Denver News

According to a release today from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Garfield County Sheriff's Office in Colorado has been turning over domestic ...

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Disappointed Democrats Fight Obama On Immigration -- And Campaign For Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.14.2012

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of President Barack Obama's most vocal critics on immigration, was sitting at dinner with his family a...

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Shootout On Turnpike Leaves Gunman Dead, 2 Officers Shot

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Florida's Turnpike, Florida Turnpike Shooting, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Florida Turnpike, Shooting on Turnpike, Miami Crime, Nelia Real, Miami News

Two law enforcement officers are hospitalized with gunshot wounds and a gunman is dead after a string of crimes culminated in a shootout on Florida's ...

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Reward for the Oppressor -- Injustice for the Oppressed?

Sandra A. Grossman, Esq. | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Asylum Seekers, Venezuelan Justice Eladio Aponte Aponte, Venezuela, Eladio Aponte Aponte, Chen Guancheng, Politcal Asylum, Asylum, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Immigration Reform, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DC News

Resolving the situation of deserving asylum applicants will strengthen the powerful message that our government stands with victims of persecution and that we are a safe haven for those who cannot find justice in their own countries.

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Perry Claims Obama Encourages Unauthorized Immigration By Minors

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry accused the Obama administration last week of skirting its immigration enforcement duties to the point of encourag...

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Whistleblowers Face Deportation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: New Orleans, Texas, Natural Disasters, Whistleblowers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, All Dry, Protest, Hurricane Gustav, Rally, Hurricane Ike, Immigration, Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Ice, Day Laborers, Latino Voices News

In September 2008, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav ravaged cities along the Texas coast. Ambitious contractors and those just eager to help went looking for...

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Cousins Mistakenly Swept Up In Sex Trafficking Raid Fight Deportation Order

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Julio Diaz Sales, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Ice Deportation, Adolfo Garcia Diaz, Guatemalan Cousins Deportation, Deportations, Latino Voices News

Immigration advocates are fighting to block the imminent deportation of two Guatemalan cousins allegedly bloodied and battered when Immigration and Cu...

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Undocumented Immigrant Offers To Leave, Gets Locked Up Instead

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Politics News, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Indonesian Refugees, Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrant, Refugees, Asylum, Deportation, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

Kalsum Pangkey, a 56-year-old undocumented immigrant from Indonesia, went to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on April 25 to report that ...

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ICE's Collateral Damage in an Ironic Sex Trafficking Raid

Subhash Kateel | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Immigration, Immigration Detention, Adolfo Garcia, Immigrant Rights, Illegal Immigrants Drivers Licenses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, Miami Impact, Miami Immigration, Ice, Julio Diaz, Miami News

Does one of the largest law enforcement agencies, with programs and operations with names like "Secure Communities" and "Community Shield," really care about the communities it is "securing" and shielding?

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Ex-ICE Intelligence Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.01.2012

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A former chief of intelligence for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pleaded guilty today to embezzlement charges stemming from a travel voucher fraud and kickback scheme that has cost the government more than $600,000.

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Critics Unimpressed With Changes To U.S. Program To Deport Undocumented Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Secure Communities, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Ice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday announced a policy change for its Secure Communities program, hoping to address concerns r...

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Why Is Homeland Security Cracking Down On Flea Markets?

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Flea Market, Counterfeiting, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, Flea Market Raid, Baltimore Flea Market, Small Business News and Trends, Ice, Flea Market Raid Baltimore, Patapsco Flea Market, Video, Small Business News

Could this be the end of the local flea market? In an effort to crack down on counterfeiting, the Department of Homeland Security has begun targeti...

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Ex-ICE Intelligence Chief Charged With Embezzlement

Andrew Becker | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: James Woosley, Embezzlement, Fraud, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ice, Politics News

A former intelligence chief for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is accused of embezzling more than $180,000 stemming from a travel voucher fraud and kickback scheme that has defrauded the government of more than $500,000.

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U.S. Closes 2,600 Deportation Cases Deemed Low Priority

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Video, Prosecutorial Discretion, Undocumented Immigrants, John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Obama Immigration, Immigrants, Immigration, Slidepollajax, Deportation, Deportation Review, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A review of about 300,000 pending deportation cases resulted in 2,609 men and women being allowed to stay in the U.S. -- at least tempor...

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Immigrants Near U.S.-Canada Border Fear Racial Profiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Immigrants and minorities who live near the U.S. northern border are fearful of Customs and Border Protection agents, accusing them of r...

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Toy Company Allegedly Laundered Drug Money

AP | Posted 04.16.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Five people were arrested Monday in a money laundering scheme that allegedly funneled millions of dollars in Colombian and Mexican...

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Drug Smugglers Placing Job Ads In Mexican Newspapers

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 04.11.2012

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SAN DIEGO — The war on drugs is going to the classified sections of Mexican newspapers. Smugglers have long advertised work as security guards,...

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Congresswoman Visits Church Serving As Sanctuary For Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, Indonesian Refugees, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration, Deportation, Refugees, Asylum, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

Three men who fled persecution in their native Indonesia are now living in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation, as its pastor and members of Cong...

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Homeland Security Didn't Mean To Deceive Communities -- But Did, Inspector Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, Immigration Enforcement, Secure Communities, Immigration, Secure Communities Opt-Out, Dhs, Ice, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security began an immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities, designed to find ...

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Thousands Arrested In Immigration Operation

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, Secure Communities, Immigration, Dhs, Ice, Deportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As Republicans accuse the Obama administration of shirking its responsibilities on immigration enforcement, the agency responsible for i...

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Thousands Of Parents Deported By ICE

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the first half of 2011 alone, nearly 46,500 parents of U.S.-born children were forced to leave the country, according to a report rel...

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Immigrant Detention TOO Nice, House Republicans Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- To some Republicans in Congress, U.S. immigration detention facilities sound like resorts. That was the premise of a hearing Wednesd...

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Feds May Weigh In On ICE Enforcement In Colo Schools

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: ICE Officers, Video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Roaring Fork School District, School Resource Officer, School Officer Deporting, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, School District Deportations, Alvaro Agon, School District Immigration Enforcement, Denver News

If a school resource police officer is tasked with promoting school safety, and also works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), does that cr...

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Undocumented Youth Rally At Immigration Headquarters

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Video, Undocumented Immigrants, One Michigan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Immigrant Youth Alliance, Jose Franco, DREAM Act, Homeland Security, Immigration, Undocumented Youth, Ice, 1-Michigan, Detroit News

A group of high school and college students rallied outside regional headquarters for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Detroit Wednes...

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WATCH: Lifesaving Surgeon Handed Citizenship By Immigration Officer Patient

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Florida News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tampa, Lifesaving Neurosurgeon Citizenship, U.S. Citizenship, Dr. Gabriel Gonzales-Portillo, Citizenship Ceremony, Melissa Wingerd, Video, Miami News

TAMPA, Fla. — An otherwise routine citizenship ceremony was extra special Wednesday for a Florida immigration officer who presented a naturaliza...

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