ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Minuteman Project

Where Laborers Go, They Will Follow
Washington Post - United States
... taxpayer-financed day-laborer center is scheduled to open tomorrow in Herndon, and the president of the local chapter of the Minuteman Project said yesterday ...

REGION ROUNDUP
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... privacy.". The Minuteman Project would like to start an official border watch in North Dakota by June, Simcox said. The citizen's ...

Opinion by Ernesto Portillo Jr.: Maverick legislator, 29 ...
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... She was in town to promote a documentary video critical of the Minuteman Project, the civilian border watch group. I caught up with ...

Illegal Immigration - A Native American Indian's View
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... are Mexican, but because of the lack of minority involvement in such endeavors as the Minuteman Project, the organization of the California Border Patrol, etc. ...

Texans Want Cops to Enforce Immigration Laws
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... In April, more than 800 volunteers participated in the Minuteman Project, guarding the Arizona-Sonora border and reporting illegal activity to federal agents. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Federal Judge Clears Way For Border Fence
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... barrier to completing a border fence meant to thwart illegal immigrants in the southwestern corner of the US Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo supports the ...

'Birthright' in US Could Be Ended By the Congress
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... "It is not the way that aliens should become citizens of this country," the chairman of the House immigration reform caucus, Rep. Tom Tancredo, said. ...

Rules panel likely to reject guest-worker legislation
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... Adams, spokesman for Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a conservative who has been pushing to reinforce border security. Tancredo has been ...

Guest-worker bill faces rejection
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a conservative who is pushing to reinforce border security, said: 'The White House has lost a lot of credibility on this issue, and they ...

Officials discuss immigrant ‘invasion'
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
... US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is backing a federal measure to remove the legal promise of citizenship to anyone who's born in this country. ...

White House Watch: RNC chair plans Hispanic outreach
U.S. News & World Report - USA
... "Mehlman is concerned that we might become the party of Tom Tancredo on this," says a GOP insider, referring to the Colorado Republican representative who has ...

Border Patrol

Apptis Wins $5M Customs & Border Patrol Contract
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... announced it has won a $5 million contract from the US Customs and Border Patrol to provide support services to the Program Integration Division. ...

State border police initiative fails
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... including some North County politicians and the Escondido City Council, said the state needed a border police force because the US Border Patrol was not doing ...

Immigration smuggling

Man pleads guilty in smuggling ring case
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which conducted a three-year undercover investigation codenamed Operation Tortuga, said Asaifi, his wife and others ...

PAKISTAN: CAMPAIGN TO CURB HUMAN SMUGGLING LAUNCHED
AKI - Rome,Italy
... document which will help recognise government efforts to curb human smuggling at the ... be installed at all entry and exit points, as well as immigration counters ...

Mexican official calls House immigration bill 'wrong,' calls for ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- A bill that would toughen US immigration enforcement is "wrong ... in border areas for assistance in combatting alien smuggling and illegal entry. ...

Man Given Four Months For Smuggling Illegals
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... The migrants told US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents they paid $3,000 each in smuggling fees, authorities said. According ...

83 Years For Cocaine Smuggling Gang
UK Security (press release) - Tiverton,Devon,UK
... Richard Riley monitored the arrival of the couriers through immigration and into the ... at their homes for their role in masterminding the smuggling operation. ...

Derbez slams US bill on immigration
El Universal Online - Mexico
A bill that would toughen US immigration enforcement is "wrong" and US ... law enforcement in border areas for assistance in combatting alien smuggling and illegal ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

House Poised to Approve Tough Border Security Measure
New York Times - United States
... in Congress as vital to combat illegal immigration and tighten the ... including human traffickers, employers who hire illegal aliens and alien gang members ...

Birthright and Wrong
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
It's going to be quite a week for immigration reform in Washington ... a bug lamp, bad amendments seem to be gravitating to this piece of legislation, proving that ...

Western state legislators frustrated with feds
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... Business Perspective on Comprehensive Immigration Reform," Monday, Dec ... ve seen more and more legislation as frustration ... Ann Morse, an immigration policy analyst ...

History's Highest Immigration Levels
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... is consistent with those prepared by the Census Bureau, Immigration and Nationalization Service ... whether a respondent in the survey is an illegal alien with 100 ...

Ex-Border Patrol agent gets five years for smuggling drugs
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
SAN DIEGO -- A former Border Patrol agent in El Centro who tried to smuggle nearly 750 pounds of marijuana across the border in his patrol vehicle was ...

Fear of Exile Vexes Many in South OC
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... When rumors spread that the US Border Patrol is in town, parents say school attendance drops, mothers ask those who are US citizens to walk their children home ...

US in major crackdown on illegal immigrants
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... group, the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR), Belfast ... by Senator Ted Kennedy's immigration spokeswoman Esther ... horrible" piece of legislation that could ...

National Policy Institute Calls for Mass Deportation of Illegals
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA
... in the labor force due to immigration results in ... taxpayers and workers, of deporting illegal aliens. ... provides convincing evidence that the alien problem could ...

Chambliss to introduce bill today for farm guest workers
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia will introduce legislation today that would grant ... Republicans in Congress pushing for some variety of immigration reform, though the ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

House Poised to Approve Tough Border Security Measure
New York Times - United States
... measures that were "a vital component to immigration reform." But she said the Bush administration would still push for broader immigration legislation. ...

Border security measure opened to wide-ranging changes
GovExec.com - USA
... Democrats to defeat the rule, effectively killing the legislation for the ... director of government relations for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. ...

Detainee Treatment Tops US Congress's Pre-Holiday Agenda
Voice of America - USA
... trouble on the horizon on another key piece of legislation, renewal of ... action by the full Congress next year on another of his priorities, immigration reform.

U.S. Immigration legislation

Mexican official calls House immigration bill "wrong"
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY A top Mexican officials says legislation to toughen US immigration enforcement is "wrong.". Mexico's Foreign Relations ...

Immigrants make up 12.1 percent of US population, report finds
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... account for 12.1 percent of the total US population, compared ... Lawmakers will debate hotly contested immigration legislation in coming weeks, including a border ...

Showdown looms on immigration
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... penalties for alien smugglers, require all US employers to ... ve got to do with immigration," Rep. ... lawmakers also hope Congress approves guest worker legislation. ...

US in major crackdown on illegal immigrants
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... as a "horrible, horrible" piece of legislation that could ... 25,000 illegal Irish immigrants living in the US. ... to pass the McCain Kennedy immigration bill, which ...

NCSL hosts immigration conference at Statehouse
Denver Business Journal - Denver,CO,USA
... Congress is considering legislation that would require all employers to comply with a ... play an important role in the US economy ... "Without immigration, our ability ...

End Immigration Anarchy
CBS News - USA
... for perhaps one-third of illegal aliens, this ... as well as increased penalties for alien smuggling and ... local police and federal immigration authorities, ensuring ...

Showdown looms on immigration
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... House bill would set tougher penalties for alien smugglers, require ... things we've got to do with immigration," Rep. ... to the US-born children of illegal immigrants ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Authorities holding 18 suspected illegal immigrants
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
Mansfield police officer Boyd Farmer said agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had been investigating workers at the Travis Lumber Co. ...

Law News - Former Orange County Judge pleads guilty to possession ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... was then conducted by Irvine police and agents with the United States Customs Service, who are now part of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US Customs and Border Protection Intercepts More than $11.4 ...
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... In all, US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 8,022 seizures of goods for intellectual property right violations ...

Coke Bust In Puerto Rico
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Gustavo Lacen-Berrios and Victor Maracayo De la Cruz of the Dominican Republic yesterday after a US ...

Jordanian Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Smuggle Aliens into ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... L. Wainstein of the District of Columbia, and Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Clark for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today. ...

US deports Saudi director of Virginia Muslim charity
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... who served as director of the Virginia office of the Muslim World League (MWL) has been deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on ...

Latino advocate reacts to arrests
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... which began at 4:15 pm that day and lasted for nearly three hours while agents searched the premises - included the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center and The Gerda and Kurt Klein ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in cooperation with The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation today announced that requests for their ...

(PRN) - OSS CEO Announces 100 United Nations Scholarships, 100 ...
Bolsamania.com - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
(PRN) - Southern Poverty Law Center and The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation Launch Tolerance Project ... [+. PRN) - Synova Healthcare, Inc. ...

The New Dream Team: White Power and Radical Islam
Freezerbox - USA
... When Oregon skinheads beat a black Ethiopian immigrant to death, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League filed a lawsuit against Metzger ...

"MS 13" Gang

Richland Co. sheriff warns of new gang entering Columbia
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
... Columbia. The gang is called "MS-13," or the "Mara Salvatrucha" gang. Police say it's the most dangerous gang in the country. It ...

Washington Legal Foundation

American Justice Partnership Launches New Web Site; Includes News ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... AJP partners include the American Tort Reform Association, Washington Legal Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Center for Individual Freedom, American ...

"Mexico"

UPDATE 1-Mexico 28-day T-bill yield tumbles to 8.14 percent
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The yield on Mexico's benchmark 28-day Cetes, or T-bills, tumbled 28 basis points to 8.14 percent on Tuesday as markets reacted ...

In Mexico, young authors look beyond El Boom
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Guadalajara, Mexico -- Little is known about the following people: David Toscana, Ignacio Padilla, Mario Bellatín and Mónica Lavín. ...

Mexico aims new law at old profession
International Herald Tribune - France
TIJUANA, Mexico She arrived at the clinic at noon, dark sunglasses covering her eyes and a baseball cap pulled down low. She clutched ...

Pawning Helps Pay for the Piñata in Loan-Poor Mexico
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Aurora Rico Torres is hosting a big holiday party this week, part of a nine-day celebration leading up to Christmas. ...

LULAC

Supreme Court to review Texas redistricting map
KHON2 - Honolulu,HI,USA
... down the middle, totally diluting the Mexican-American vote" said Luis Vera, general counsel for plaintiffs League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). ...

"ACLU"

ACLU Calls for Vote Against Cloture on Patriot Act Compromise ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... saucer that cools the tea,' and reject pressures to hastily pass a faulty bill," said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office ...

ACLU Steps In to Protect Student's Free Speech
CBS 3 - Philadelphia,PA,USA
(AP) LANSDALE, PA A Montgomery County High School student is off the hook for wearing an outrageous political t-shirt to school, after the American Civil ...

The ACLU Are Well Organised Extremists Copying Off the Same Page
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
... Who called Christian organizations defending Christmas, "Well organised extremists out to demonize the ACLU, crush religious diversity, and make a few bucks ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles Mecha' Mayor

Kotkin Versus Villaraigosa: Whose Los Angeles?
Local Liberty Blog - Claremont,CA,USA
LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is hailed by New Urbanists for his calls for ... economies that have been creating fewer jobs and opportunities than Los Angeles. ...

NEW LA PORT CHIEF NAMED
CalTrade Report - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... relations, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has tapped Long Beach's veteran port administrator to be general manager of the Port of Los Angeles, reports the Los ...

Proposed Posting of 'Use of Force'
abc7.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to ask the Police Commission to adopt a policy today that would allow for greater transparency during ...

Mother Of Slain Girl Sues City And Chief Bratton
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... said the LAPD had no comment on the Los Angeles Superior Court suit brought on behalf of Lorena Lopez. Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa named a Board of ...

Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios
Chabad-Lubavitch - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... In the past Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Red Sox right fielder Gabe Kapler were hoisted up by cherry picker to light Chabad's 18-foot tall ...

ACLU Condemns Hidden Provision that Would Impede Freedom of Speech ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today denounced a provision contained within legislation created to reauthorize the Patriot Act that would make ...

Persons of the Year, ACLU Style
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
... For reasons that I won't argue here, one of the people solicited was Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU. Now, do ...

ACLU challenges Fla. county's speech-zone rules
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
... The ACLU argues the rules are unconstitutionally exclusionary in a lawsuit filed Dec. 9 in federal court in Tampa. "The problem is really very simple. ...

American Communist Litigation Union (ACLU)
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... the American people information that could help put the US Fifth Column in political perspective, the formation, agenda and tactics of the ACLU requires some ...

ACLU Opposes Patriot Act Provision
Washington Post - United States
... To the ACLU, the changes would open the door to even tighter security restrictions at major events and would subject protesters to harassment from federal law ...

The war on Christmas
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... School Superintendent Karl Springer banned it after the ACLU told him that the nativity scene and maybe even "Silent Night" could violate the First ...

Police dumbfounded as serial killer stalks Mexico
Taipei Times - Taiwan
This much they know: Someone has been murdering older women in Mexico City, strangling them in their homes, pocketing a keepsake and vanishing into the city's ...

The faithful honor Mexico's holy patroness
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
According to tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a 55-year-old peasant named Juan Diego near Mexico City on December 12, 1531. ...

Mexico stocks hit record high, T-bill yields tumble
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks rose to a record high close on Tuesday, driven by telecoms and retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico, while the peso ...

Newfield Reports on Resumption of Gulf of Mexico Production ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX - News) today provided a progress report on the resumption of its production in the Gulf of Mexico following 2005 ...

CentAm Energy Summit in Mexico
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Mexico, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) Central American presidents are meeting this Tuesday in Cancun, Mexico, to discuss energy plans and agree on a project to build ...

SSA Global Customer, HSBC Mexico, Wins Gartner CRM Excellence ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... FirstCall/ -- SSA Global(TM) (Nasdaq: SSAG), a leading provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, today announced that HSBC Mexico has won the ...

CAFTA

Vehicles, equipment tax exempt with DR-CAFTA
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo.- Once the Free Trade Agreement with the US and Central America (DR-CAFTA) is implemented, various categories of vehicles and transport and parts ...

Letters: Poverty ‘trickles down' via CAFTA
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
The impact of CAFTA on at least the 73 percent of Nicaragua's population that make less than $2 a day is ominous. Advocates of ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

Week in Review
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... of the votes, and American Independent Party candidate Jim Gilchrist, who snagged ... Although Gilchrist -- founder of the Minuteman Project -- lost the election ...

East Valley news briefs
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... MESA - JT Ready, one of the founding members of the Arizona Minuteman Project, has picked up organization papers to run for the District 4 City Council seat. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Knee-jerk immigration reform
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Knowing a guest-worker program would have trouble getting past the House immigration caucus, led by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, lawmakers plan to ...

House to Take Up Stricter Immigration Measure
Washington Post - United States
... all but charged the congressman from his neighboring district with grandstanding, linking him to the House's anti-immigration firebrand Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). ...

Some Conservatives Seek to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., wants to attach an amendment revoking birthright citizenship to a broader immigration bill scheduled to be taken up sometime next week. ...

Edwards will be speaker at QC event
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... visited the Quad-Cities. They are US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., New York Gov. George Pataki and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Cracks in the Melting Pot
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... worry. In Congress, for example, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has proposed getting rid of entire categories of work visas. Business ...

Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy

Boughton forms group to reform immigration laws
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and Suffolk County (NY) Executive Steve Levy announced the formation of Mayors and Executives for Immigration Reform, a group that ...


illegal alien, illegal immigration

New program helps poor and immigrant families buy homes
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... can an illegal alien be if the government is subsidizing his mortgage?" said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration ...

Arrested illegals at mercy of feds
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
... Agents choose who to bring before an immigration judge for removal ... agency's duties include " identifying and removing all high-risk illegal alien fugitives and ...

Why "Guest Workers" Won't Work
WEBCommentary - USA
... While the two principal reform proposals competing in ... Wis.), who has jurisdiction over immigration issues, has proposed security legislation without guest ...

Outdated "Baby-boomers" in America. By Rafael Briones
Opinion Editorials - Fairfax,VA,USA
... Data indicates that immigration is not a problem. ... It's well known that among the Hispanic population using the term "illegal alien" is offensive and ...

illegal immigration
George Bush, President, Congress, laws, crimes, security, Border Patrol, ...
DHS, Money, Americans,Illegal Aliens The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

Immigrant report fails to document accurate picture
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... seems calculated to whip up anti-immigration sentiment and to ... The official term is "undocumented alien." Pawlenty knows that, but "illegal immigrants" is ...

Man's case shows gaps in security
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... He's this other person and he's a criminal, illegal alien who was deported on ... noted the federal government has four agents to handle immigration violations in ...

Border fence is first obstacle to illegals
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
... a permiso, a document charging them with illegal entry and ... of failures to appear at one immigration court in ... are added to the list of alien absconders with ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

Most say illegal immigration is a big concern
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... that 86 percent believe that US businesses are ... to the surge of illegal immigration by hiring ... The legislation, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman ...

Death comes too soon
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
... to leave Iraq as a US citizen," Staff Sgt ... active-duty soldiers, including new legislation in Frederick's ... Chertoff-whose agency oversees immigration-apologise to ...

Bush moves to open US doors to more Immigrants
Daily Sun - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
By Sam Omatseye reporting from US. ... visa lottery alone, if the wave of immigration proposals before ... is staking out an even more sweeping legislation, which will ...

Govt draws up travel ban hit-list
ZWNEWS.com - UK
... General, Cde TT Mudede." Mudede's letter to Immigration, dated 24 ... The 17 of us are being used as an ... yesterday said there was no enabling legislation that would ...

Lobby group to help illegal Irish in US
RTE.ie - Ireland
... It is likely that elements of all three will go into legislation aimed at tackling the biggest immigration problem the US has ever faced. ...

A Comprehensive Border Security & Immigration Policy
Post Chronicle - USA
... so is far outweighed by the costs of illegal immigration. ... There is presently legislation pending in congress to deny ... child of a mother who is a US citizen or ...

illegal alien drivers license

Man's case shows gaps in security
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... other person and he's a criminal, illegal alien who was ... agents concentrate on serious felons, not bad drivers. ... to get a full-fledged driver's license from the ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Waiting for the smoke to clear
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... proposal, the mayor's initiative would have authorized the training of Costa Mesa police officers by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to screen ...

Soccer pioneer can't shake past
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Paul Hunker, chief counsel for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas, said he could not comment on Mr. Griffith's case specifically. ...

Week in Review
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
The City Council early Wednesday voted to work with Orange County officials and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to have city police trained for ...

Activists shift to urging firms not to hire illegal immigrants
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials evaluate the groups' tips and footage, but often the reports cannot be verified, said Bill Riley, ICE's chief ...

A conversation with Jon Kyl
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... taken into custody by Tucson PD, or DPS, or Phoenix PD, they (law enforcement) need to be able to call ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or Border ...

More criminals crossing border
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... The job of pursuing such immigrants falls to another Homeland Security agency, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the nation's second-largest ...

US District Court doings
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... authorized immigration official for deportation. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Tracking the Bloody Footprints in the House of Death: Part II
The NarcoSphere - New York,NY,USA
... were carried out with the assistance of a US government informant under the watch of a US prosecutor and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in El ...

Hooked on cheap labor
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... But since the Immigration and Naturalization Service disbanded and Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created in 2003, the focus has switched to criminal ...

Policy will make our city safer
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... The authority comes from a law passed by Congress, and the training would be done through and under the guidance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US border officers seizing tons of potent Canadian marijuana
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... "There don't seem to be profiles any longer," said Vincent Salvatore, group supervisor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US Enforcement Agency Joins Virtual Global Task Force
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
by Jim Kouri - Immigration and Customs Enforcement will serve as a board member and the primary US law enforcement representative to the Virtual Global Task ...

Police will target 10 Hub ˜red zones' to stem city violence
Boston Herald - United States
... by "red-zone teams," composed of city cops and federal agents assigned to the FBI, DEA, ATF and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, but ...

Couple accused of plot to launder money
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Lauren Mack, spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency's currency-sniffing dog swept through the house on Misty Creek, and agents ...

Police train efforts on 'red zones'
Boston Globe - United States
... District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, and top officials from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the US ...

Immigration smuggling

Minister unaware of Tekriti's aid in trial
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Justice Minister Chris Ellison, responsible for the Australian Federal Police, praised the joint police-immigration People Smuggling Strike Team operation that ...

600 immigrants died in Med last summer
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
Dr Borg was making a point on human smuggling at the closing of an EU-sponsored, two-day symposium on illegal immigration, which brought together academics and ...

Illegal migrant captures surge
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... "Immigration remains a federal responsibility. But our concern at the county level remains with the crime that increasingly accompanies the smuggling of ...

Stop border-crossing gangsters
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... Judiciary Committee, real solutions for the nation's immigration problems are ... would stiffen sentences for people convicted of smuggling undocumented immigrants ...

Palm Beach County news briefs
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... may have been involved in "smuggling event," US Border Patrol spokesman Steve McDonald said. Border Patrol, the Sheriff's Office and Immigration and Customs ...

Army drones keep an eye on the border
Swissinfo - Switzerland
After successful test flights, Swiss border guards asked for permission to use the drones in the fight against smuggling and illegal immigration. ...

How Saddam's man was cleared
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... It is now in his Immigration Department file. ... After Asfoor's conviction on 12 counts of people smuggling was overturned on appeal, a retrial was ordered. ...

US border officers seizing tons of potent Canadian marijuana
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... to be profiles any longer," said Vincent Salvatore, group supervisor for Immigration and Customs ... suspected of being part of one Canada-to-New York smuggling run ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles MECHA' MAYOR

LA's mayor is latest to tackle school reform
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- Joining a coterie of big-city mayors, Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles's new chief executive, is moving to assert more control over troubled ...

Welcome, comrades, to Moscow on the Pacific
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
MAYOR ANTONIO Villaraigosa is learning what it feels like when a revolution starts ... In Los Angeles, they could represent engineers, sanitation workers and cops. ...

Dropout miscount
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... the graduation rate for "minority" students in the Los Angeles Unified School ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa evidently believes the number and routinely cites it ...

The Train Wreck in Our Backyard--Lincoln Place
VenicePaper - Venice,CA,USA
It was at the end of the business day in Colorado, when Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and District 11 Councilman Bill Rosendahl spoke to the CEO of ...

Leaders hope to attract jobs to Times plant
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... attract high-paying jobs to the 26-acre Los Angeles Times printing ... some business executives and city officials, including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, agree the ...

Villaraigosa Nominates LAHSA Board
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last Wednesday announced his picks for the 10-member commission of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), and it ...

What's in a name? Hopefully, not memories of stripper scandals
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA
... "Now, you actually know what they do," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the Times. You mean with the exotic dancers? Oh, wait. ...
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Kearin's return speaks volumes
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... So would being scheduled in between well-respected real-estate developer Nelson Rising and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

News briefs from Southern California
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... LOS ANGELES (AP) - The area film permit organization is shedding its cumbersome ... "Now, you actually know what they do," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday. ...

"ACLU"

Foe puts ACLU on Christmas card list
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... for its alleged "War on Christmas" (as it's called in the title of a new book by Fox News' John Gibson) McCullough's "Merry Christmas ACLU" campaign takes a ...

Picture-perfect police cars
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... not foolproof. ``The caveat is that it's not going to capture everything,'' said ACLU attorney Mark Schlosberg. ``Police managers ...

FBI Labels Nonviolent Protesters Terrorists
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
As reported by The Gazette website, the ACLU was able to obtain the information through the Freedom of Information Act on protests in Colorado Springs in 2002 ...

ACLU Says You Have a Right to Life
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
If you're an innocent unborn child, you don't have that luxury. The ACLU has announced their continued opposition to Capital Punishment. ...

ACLU Sues Polk Over Speech Zone
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... policy. The lawsuit comes a week after the county officials denied the ACLU use of the site because it did not provide the insurance. ...

ACLU Wants TASERs Taken From Cops
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
By Sher Zieve -- The TASER, used on criminals by police instead of guns, has come under fire from the ACLU. The Northern California ...

US Army Releases Thousands of Documents to ACLU
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... In addition, the Army has released over 56,000 pages of documents relating to detainee operations to the ACLU and conducted more than 500 investigations into ...

An Exchange of Letters
South Carolina Headlines - Greenville,SC,USA
"Here's a riddle: How do you get the ACLU to stop defending terrorists, pedophiles, and atheists? Tell the Aclu their clients are ...

LULAC

Texans split on border patrols
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... broader issues of national security. Lemus said LULAC supports a recommendation made by the Sept. 11 Commission to improve communication ...

LULAC state board meeting on isle today
Galveston County Daily News - Galveston,TX,USA
... Oscar Moreno of Galveston, Texas LULAC parliamentarian, said immigration reform would likely be discussed. "That is a hot topic ...

The poop on SARA's watershed-protection plan
San Antonio Current - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Instead, he offered to convey title of the house to LULAC --which has advocated on behalf of Segundo--"for a nominal fee," with the restriction that the ...

Grand jury clears area police chief of assault
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Garate, 29. Rick Dovalina, LULAC's District 8 president, said he was not aware the grand jury had reached a decision Friday. He ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Human Rights Education Institute Opens In North Idaho
KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA
More than a five years after a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center brought an end to the Aryan Nation's existence in North Idaho, and one year ...

Gauging the Allen case's legacy
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
... According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pennsylvania, with 32, is ranked seventh among US states in the number of hate groups based within state borders. ...

Down syndrome barriers falling
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Act of 1975, the federal law that became ... is that current statistics equal unemployment, poverty and isolation ... similar to the University of Southern Maine and ...

Anti-immigration groups on the rise in Las Vegas
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... hotbeds" for anti-illegal immigration groups, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Nevada Poverty Law Center, an organization ...

"Mexico"

Mexico axes death penalty
News24 - South Africa
Mexico City - Mexico has outlawed its long-dormant death penalty, setting itself apart from its northern neighbour - the United States. ...

Mexico glad to have only one European opponent
Reuters.uk - UK
MEXICO CITY, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe is relieved that his side have been drawn with only one European opponent in their World Cup group ...

Two alleged kidnappers arrested in police raid in Mexico
Xinhua - China
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Two alleged kidnappers were arrested and three kidnapping victims rescued when police on Friday ...

Mexico outlaws death penalty
Houston Chronicle - United States
By MARK STEVENSON. MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government formally abolished the last vestiges of its death penalty on Friday. President ...

In Mexico, Junkyard Dogfight for Presidency
Washington Post - United States
MEXICO CITY -- The race for Mexico's presidency has featured mudslinging, backstabbing, revelations of a questionably obtained Miami penthouse, videotapes of ...

Group D looks good for Mexico
TSN.ca - Canada
LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Mexico was considered to be the weakest team seeded for Friday's World Cup draw. After the 32 finalists ...

Mexico sentences cardinal killer
BBC News - UK
A former police commander in Mexico has been jailed for 40 years for the 1993 murder of a Roman Catholic cardinal at Guadalajara airport, officials say. ...

Fort Pierce child pornographer ran to Mexico but couldn't hide
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
... knew authorities couldn't do much if he cut off his electronic monitoring device -- which depended on working phone lines -- and headed for Mexico with a ...

Man ordered deported to Mexico for attempted bribery
Rome News-Tribune - Rome,GA,USA
... "There are some cultural issues there," Baldwin said. "That's how business is done in Mexico." Prosecutor Paul Jones disagreed, telling Murphy that ...

Mexico cenbank cuts key rate, peso slumps
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's central bank, fresh from driving inflation down to record lows, cut a key interest rate sharply Friday in a bid to stimulate a tepid ...

Mexico skates through first snow storm, big problems reported ...
Mexico Ledger - Mexico,MO,USA
by ZACH MORTICE. Mexico and Audrain County made it through winter's first storm, chilly, but mostly unscathed. "This has been ...

Thousands pack Mexico City plaza as ex-mayor accepts leftist ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Tens of thousands filled the Mexican capital's massive main plaza Saturday as a fiery former mayor considered the 2006 presidential race's front ...

US rules stalling trucks from Mexico
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... agriculture, office equipment and railcar industries. The company has 20 plants in the United States and Mexico with 1,500 employees.

Mexican official Morocco, an open gate for Mexico to the Arab ...
Morocco Times - Casablanca,Morocco
Elias said, on the occasion of Morocco day in Mexico City on Dec.6-9, that there are several similarities between Mexico and Morocco. ...

To Think of Leaving Mexico
Boston Globe - United States
LEQUEITIO, Mexico -- Saul climbs out of a pile of cotton. He wants to be a doctor. ... In the desert of northern Mexico, the rain is dust, thrown by wind. ...

Who's Trying to Cross Our Southern Border? Everyone
Washington Post - United States
... Ignored in the rhetoric, as well as in US policy, is a far more complex reality -- that the southern border is no longer just a border with Mexico. ...

Terrapins end three years of frustration
ESPN - USA
CARY, NC -- Marc Burch's deflected free kick gave Maryland a 1-0 win over New Mexico in the NCAA championship game Sunday, ending three years of frustration in ...

US-Mexico pact limits lagoon development
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO, Mexico - They have already passed San Diego: thousands of gray whales making their annual 10,000-mile voyage from feeding grounds in the ...

Plain PCs Sitting Pretty
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Locally made, generic computers are outselling multinational brands in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. It all comes down to price. ...

No such thing as 'temporary workers'
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... for such policies. . Mexico would "win" by exporting surplus workers who send back hard currency to their relatives. Yet these ...

"MS 13" Gang

Boston tries 'surgical approach' to crime
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Latino gang crackdown focuses on MS-13 (August 2, 2005) -- More than 500 members of Salvadoran gang MS-13 have been arrested in a federal crackdown on violent ...

Stop border-crossing gangsters
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is a Salvadoran gang with a record of killings and kidnappings throughout Central America. It operates in Lake Worth, too. ...

More criminals crossing border
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... or MS-13, whose members are known for hacking their enemies with machetes. ICE agents in El Paso recently deported an 18-year-old Mexican gang member known as ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Couple allegedly smuggled cash
Texarkana Gazette - Texarkana,TX,USA
A Mexican couple with alleged ties to the Mexican Mafia appeared in federal court on Friday on charges of smuggling more than $230,000 in cash from the US to ...

Stop border-crossing gangsters
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... They are much more than loose-knit neighborhood alliances. MLK, for example, is a Guatemalan gang linked to EME, La Eme, the Mexican Mafia. ...

Inmates isolated for fear of gangs
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... With names like the Texas Syndicate, Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood, most have written constitutions that govern members' actions. ...

Mexican Consulate

Paisanos returning home
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
... couple of days. The Mexican consulate has produced a ten minute video offering travel tips for Paisanos. They have also written ...

Oregon home unites distant neighbors
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... Although the US Census Bureau counted 260,094 Mexicans in Oregon in 2002, according to the Mexican Consulate, with the "uncounted" -- the migrant population ...

Mysterious worker's disappearance baffled police
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... The investigation sat dormant for about seven years, until Garcia's parents contacted the Mexican consulate in 2003 wondering if anyone ever determined what ...

CAFTA

Farm Bureau members hear rep defend CAFTA
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,Oregon,USA
... He said Farm Bureau used its economic analysis team in studies coming to the conclusion that CAFTA is a win-win situation for America's farm producers. ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

'Minuteman' gears up for Calif. election
United Press International - USA
... co-founder of the Minuteman Project of armed citizen border patrols stepped up campaigning Monday for a special congressional election. Jim Gilchrist, a 56-year ...

Voter disaffection an opening for third party?
MSNBC - USA
... On Tuesday, voters' willingness to back a third-party candidate will be put to the test as Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project which patrols the ...

Vietnam vet holds vigil on border
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Mr. Craig's group, the California Minutemen, was organized by James Chase, one of the founders of the Minuteman Project in Arizona in April, which successfully ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

Illegal Alien Invasion Deadlier Than Iraq
Human Events - USA
... remain obscure, or other factors reduced the murder rate in the illegal alien population to ... in lives for our abject failure to enforce our own immigration laws ...

Dr. Paul J Dean
Crosswalk.com - Chesterfield,VA,USA
... those who say we cannot tolerate illegal immigration of any ... your own country and the immigration laws of ... or thirsty, or a stranger (alien; foreigner; immigrant ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Sensenbrenner Statement on Immigration Reform Legislation
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) issued the following statement today regarding immigration reform legislation: ...

How is immigration reform none of Mexico's business?
El Universal Online - Mexico
... Is that what passes for enlightened immigration reform these days ... in favor of reasonable legislation, and that ... Working without Mexico on immigration and border ...

Dreier still under fire for immigration stance
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... House Speaker Dennis Hastert has committed to giving Dreier a visible leadership role if and when comprehensive immigration reform legislation begins to take ...

Border Patrol

We can't hire enough Border Patrol Agents?
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
I've got an idea…I keep hearing how President Bush was provided plenty of money by Congress to hire more than enough Border Patrol agents to address our ...

ON THE BORDER
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... Craig was the only member whose cell phone got a signal. Anyone who spotted migrants or drug smugglers was to radio him, and he would phone the Border Patrol. ...

Immigration smuggling

Panel recommends filing of charges vs execs
INQ7.net - Philippines
... The panel recommended that officials on duty from the Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of ... in the midst of the growing concern over terrorism, smuggling and human ...

Pa. volunteers reach out to asylum-seekers
Baltimore Sun - United States
... Long Island, NY Their high-profile cases propelled the issue of human smuggling and detention ... skeptic with a dry wit who had never worked on an immigration case ...

Getting tough on illegals? Hah!
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
I've often said of government officials concerning illegal immigration: "They just don ... Arizona Republic, the increase is due to increased drug smuggling and the ...

Immigration cases on the rise
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
... The prime minister has also established an inter-ministerial committee on human trafficking, smuggling and illegal immigration. ...

DHS review of Italy and Portugal spurs speculation
Travel Weekly (subscription) - Secaucus,NJ,USA
... noted that such reviews consider, among other things, information relating to terrorism, criminal activities, illegal immigration and alien smuggling. ...

Antiguan WPC drug courier goes to court in England
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
... to question whether or not customs, immigration and police officials in Antigua and Barbuda are in anyway involved in the organised smuggling of drugs into ...

"Tom Tancredo"

ICE, Colombians Work Together To Dismantle Norte Valle Cartel

Around noon on October 29, thirty members of the Colombian National Police (CNP) special "Jungla" unit, working with the ICE Attache Office in Bogota, stormed a ranch in northwest Colombia. Following a firefight in which a Colombian officer was wounded, the CNP arrested Jhonny Cano-Correa, aka "Flechas" or "Santiago." It was the latest victory in a 10-year battle that has led ICE to the heart of Colombia's largest and most dangerous drug smuggling organization - the Norte Valle Cartel. More

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ICE Represents U.S. On Global Task Force To Protect Children

BELFAST, U.K. - Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Clark announced November 15 that ICE will serve as a board member and the primary U.S. law enforcement representative to the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an integrated network of law enforcement agencies from different nations created to combat online child abuse. More

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ICE Deports Man Wanted For Inciting Racial Hatred In Germany

CHICAGO - A man wanted in Germany for inciting racial hatred by denying that thousands of Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz was deported by ICE November 14. More

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ICE Arrests Eight In Houston For Sex Trafficking Scheme

HOUSTON, Texas - Eight Salvadoran nationals were arrested by ICE agents November 13 for their alleged roles in an organization that trafficked Latin American females, including minors, into the United States and forced them into sexual servitude. More

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ICE Efforts Bring Ancient Work Of Art Back To Italy

LOS ANGELES - A 2,300-year-old vase that was allegedly smuggled out of Italy and ended up in the Getty Museum's antiquities collection arrived in Rome last week, capping a joint effort by ICE, Italian authorities and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles to return the artifact to its original home. More

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ICE Arrests 125 Illegal Aliens At Wal-Mart Construction Site

FRACKVILLE, Pa. - ICE agents executed federal search warrants November 17 on trailers belonging to five subcontracting companies working at the construction site of a new Wal-Mart Distribution Center in Butler Township, Pa. More

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ICE MOST WANTED

Daniel CERCAS-Manilla is wanted for questioning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in connection with the May 2001 smuggling attempt that resulted in the death of 14 illegal aliens south of Welton, Arizona. More

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Border Tunnel

An ICE agent examines the entrance to a border tunnel discovered late in the day November 16 near San Diego and the Otay Mesa port of entry. The tunnel investigation is a coordinated effort involving ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Border Patrol, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Agents determined the primitive passageway, which originated in Mexico, and extended about 90 feet into the United States, was not complete. Since 9/11, federal authorities have discovered at least 16 cross border tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border in California and Arizona. More

Then and now: how they feel about war
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Tom Tancredo might have voted against the war in Iraq. ... Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, supported Iraq invasion, with reservations. ...

Are "conservative" open-borders supporters mainly libertarian ...
The Common Voice - Greenville,SC,USA
... core. The closest person we have to a traditionalist conservative is Tom Tancredo (and a few of his followers in the House). While ...

GOP mood grows darker with dream of durable majority in danger
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Tom Tancredo of Colorado, contended on Fox News the other day that Bush is "putting lipstick on a pig" by talking tough about the border while, in reality, the ...

Challenges facing OIC Summit
Morocco Times - Casablanca,Morocco
... Last July, US Republican Tom Tancredo has even suggested bombing the Holy site of Mecca, but very few Muslim organizations, and not States, have demanded an ...

AMERICA'S IMMIGRATION CRISIS: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Call your representatives and demand they join the Immigration Caucus with Tom Tancredo from Colorado. Where do you go to start? ...

Squalor, Superstitions And Fatalistic Sloth
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... Don Collins, Peter Brimelow, Dan Stein, Dr. John Tanton, John Rohe, Jim Gilchrist, Lupe Moreno, Angie Morfin, Luca Zanna, Robert Vasquez, and Tom Tancredo. ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Bush's immigration reform falls flat
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is apprehending an increasing number of Other Than Mexicans at the border, including residents of countries known to ...

Homeland Security Union Supports 9/11 Commission Findings
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... The three components of One Face -- Agriculture, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- are highly specialized and require ...

Gang Task Force arrests 45 on drug, weapons charges
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... and even illegal immigration. So the task f