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Immigration and Customs Enforcement stories: 23 news summaries

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Ariz. Sheriff Defies Feds with Immigration Sweep

Arpaio continues arresting suspected illegal immigrants despite loss of powers

Oct 16, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "toughest sheriff in America" isn't going to let anything stop him enforcing the law—not even the law. Joe Arpaio launched crime and immigration sweeps in Phoenix yesterday in defiance of a federal order stripping his deputies of the right to make immigration arrests in the field. "... More »

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Arizona • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • sheriff • Homeland Security • Joe Arpaio

 3 Busted in Cambodian 
 Kid Sex Face US Trial 

Justice-Immigration program extradites molesters to federal court

Sep 1, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three Americans arrested in Cambodia for sexually exploiting boys and girls as young as 10 are being returned to the US for trial, CNN reports. They were snagged by a joint program by the Justice Department and immigration authorities, known as Operation Twister Traveler, designed to combat sex tourism. The... More »

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Department of Justice • child molestation • Cambodia • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • sex crime • sex tourism

Obama Targets Employers in Immigration Crackdown

Worker raids give way to audits of companies

Jul 2, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is cracking down on illegal immigration using a new approach: pursuing employers rather than the immigrants themselves, the Wall Street Journal reports. Immigration officials announced yesterday they’d begun auditing 652 companies; hiring breaches could mean fines or civil and criminal charges. The new method runs counter... More »

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immigration reform • employer • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Obama administration • President Obama

Feds to Check Jails for Illegal Immigrants

Program would boost deportation, though at steep costs

May 19, 09 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US government is ramping up a program to identify illegal immigrants being held in local jails for non-immigration crimes, and flag them for deportation, reports the Washington Post. Currently operating in 48 counties, the program will be screening every local jail by 2012. The program was started under President... More »

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illegal immigrant • deportation • jail • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • George W. Bush • President Obama

Immigration Dragnets Catch US Citizens, Too

Legal residents have been detained, deported

Apr 9, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Workplace raids and jail sweeps have become popular ways to enforce US immigration law, but they often result in the detention of legal residents, the Los Angeles Times reports. It can take months, sometimes years, to clear up, because many citizens don’t have proof of their legal status, few... More »

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immigration reform • citizenship • raids • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • detention

Jail Biz Backfires for Rhode Island Town's Immigrants

Privately run jail causes discord in town full of immigrants

Dec 27, 08 10:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Locking up accused criminals is big business in America, but an attempt to cash in came with a high cost for one Rhode Island town, a New York Times investigation finds. The Donald D. Wyatt Detention Center, a maximum security jail, promised to bring jobs to the largely Hispanic town... More »

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illegal immigrant • prison • deportation • jail • Rhode Island • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • private prisons • detention

 Chertoff's Cleaner 
 Hired Illegals 

Fined owner says he's a 'scapegoat,' blasts Homeland Security system

Dec 11, 08 9:41 AM CST
(Newser) - A cleaning service whose illegal workers got past Secret Service checks to scrub Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s home is facing fines for hiring undocumented laborers, the Washington Post reports. The owner calls the enforcement uneven, saying his small business may go under while customers and large companies enjoy... More »

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illegal immigrant • Department of Homeland Security • Michael Chertoff • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • undocumented workers • Madeleine Albright • housekeeper

Feds Recover Bookmark From Hitler's Mistress

Sting operation nets gift from Eva to Adolf
stolen from museum

Nov 27, 08 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A gold bookmark given Adolf Hitler by lover Eva Braun, stolen from a Madrid museum in 2002, has been recovered in a sting operation, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Undercover federal agents pounced on a Romanian businessman in a Seattle parking lot, where he had arranged to sell the bookmark for... More »

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theft • Adolf Hitler • auction • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • bookmark • Nazi memorabilia • Christian Popescu • Kleon Tona • Wilhelm Keitel

Obama: No Exception
for Illegal Aunt

He's concerned, but 'laws have to be
obeyed,' he tells Couric

Nov 3, 08 4:23 AM CST
(Newser) - If his aunt is violating immigration laws by living in the US illegally, "those laws have to be obeyed," Barack Obama declared yesterday. Obama made the remark during an interview last night with Katie Couric, during which he also expressed concern for his aunt Zeituni Onyango of Kenya,... More »

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Barack Obama • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Election 2008 • Zeituni Onyango



 Obama Will 
 Give Aunt Her 
 Money Back 

'Auntie Zeituni' found to be living illegally in US

Nov 1, 08 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign will return donations made by his aunt, who was outed yesterday as an illegal resident in the US, the Washington Post reports. Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of the candidate’s late father, lives in a Boston public housing unit and gave $265 to her nephew’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • illegal immigrant • Boston • deportation • campaign contributions • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

 Obama's Aunt Is 
 Living Illegally in US 

Kenyan aunt's application for asylum was rejected in 2004

Nov 1, 08 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt has been living illegally in the US since 2004, the AP reports. Zeituni Onyango—affectionately referred to as "Auntie Zeituni" in the candidate's memoir—has been living in a Boston housing estate for the last 4 years, despite having been ordered to leave the US... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • illegal immigrant • Boston • deportation • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Election 2008 • Zeituni Onyango

High Court to Hear Immigrant ID Theft Case

Could impede Justice tactic of jail time for  illegal immigrants

Oct 20, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court said today it will hear a case pertinent to a recent surge in identity-theft prosecutions against illegal immigrants, the Washington Post reports. Lower courts were split over whether the government must prove that thieves knew they were stealing the identity of an actual person when they use... More »

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illegal immigrant • appeal • identity theft • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • US Supreme Court • identification • appellate court • Ignacio Flores-Figueroa

CBS Reporter Under Scrutiny for Iraq Booty

US Customs looks
into Logan's swiped Hussein portraits

Oct 3, 08 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - CBS chief correspondent and tabloid catnip Lara Logan has two portraits of Saddam Hussein in her office, and US Customs wants to know why. The art was recovered from the wreckage of a Baghdad palace, and it's illegal to take such items out of Iraq. Customs prosecuted a Fox News... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • CBS • Baghdad • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Iraq war • Lara Logan • Broadcasting & Cable

 595 Nabbed in Immigration Raid

Biggest alien raid in US history

Aug 27, 08 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the largest immigration raid in US history, federal agents have arrested 595 suspected illegal aliens at a Mississippi electronics factory. The detainees rounded up Monday included citizens of Peru, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Brazil and Germany, reports Reuters. More »

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illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Howard Industries Inc • Laurel, Mississippi • Agriprocessors Inc • Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance

Lawyers: Dying Immigrant Denied Care in Custody

34-year-old man dies of cancer

Aug 13, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hiu Lui “Jason” Ng was a New York computer engineer trying to get his green card when immigration officials arrested him last year, the New York Times reports. Last week he died of undiagnosed cancer after months of neglect in immigration detention centers. Ng complained of chronic back pain,... More »

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cancer • abuse • deportation • illegal immigration • immigrant • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • detention

 'Rockefeller' Trail
 Leads to Germany

Investigators believe he came to US as German exchange student

Aug 8, 08 3:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Immigration agents have joined the hunt for the true identity of the mystery man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, and believe "Clark Rockefeller" began his life in America as a German exchange student. Investigators have questioned a Connecticut family who hosted student Christian Gerhart Streiter in 1980, reports... More »

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Clark Rockefeller • Sandra Boss • Michael Savio • Christopher Chichester • Gwen Savio • John Sohus • Linda Sohus • Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter

Hands Bound, States Find Ways to Attack Immigration

Identity theft, other laws used to arrest illegals

Jun 9, 08 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - You hear a lot less Spanish these days in Milton, Fla. Hispanic immigrants fled the panhandle town after local police raided more than a dozen businesses, arresting at least 27 illegals. Technically, only federal agents can enforce immigration law, but cops around the country have found ways around that problem,... More »

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Florida • immigration • identity theft • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

297 Illegal Immigrants Get
Jail in Federal Crackdown

Stiff sentences signal tougher federal line on immigration

May 24, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 270 illegal immigrants have been sentenced to 5 months in federal prison in a sign that the Bush administration is taking a much harder line on undocumented workers, the New York Times reports. Busted for using fake IDs, the workers were among 389 swept up at a kosher meat-packing... More »

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Iowa • illegal immigrant • deportation • illegal immigration • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Detained Immigrants Dying for Lack of Health Care

 Overburdened system fails to adequately diagnose and treat detainees, Post finds

May 11, 08 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The number of detained immigrants has skyrocketed since 9/11, and many do not receive critical health care in overburdened federal detention centers, the Washington Post reports. Several immigrants, detained for minor offenses or waiting to seek asylum, received little or no care for life-threatening symptoms which finally killed them, a... More »

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Bush administration • immigration • health care • detainee • immigrant • Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Immigration Chief Covered Up Racist Pics, Dems Say

Myers report highlights worries about diversity

Apr 9, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to hide pictures of her giving an award to an employee in a racially insensitive Halloween costume, House Democrats say. Julie Myers was photographed smiling and standing next to an employee in prison garb and wearing blackface, whom she awarded the night's... More »

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racism • Department of Homeland Security • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • cronyism • Julie Myers • blackface

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