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  • October 2008

    • US Illegal Immigration Plunges

      Washington Post  |  Oct 3, 08 3:00 AM CDT

      US Illegal Immigration Plunges

      (Newser) - The number of illegal immigrants entering the US has plummeted in the last several years, a new study has found. Close to 800,000 illegal immigrants entered the US each year from 2000-2004, but 500,000 have entered each year since, reports the Washington Post . For the first time in a decade the number of legal immigrants entering the US has surpassed the illegals coming into the country. More »

  • August 2008

    • 595 Nabbed in Immigration Raid

      Reuters  |  Aug 27, 08 3:17 AM CDT

      595 Nabbed in Immigration Raid

      (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

    • Work Begins on Controversial San Diego Border Fence

      Associated Press  |  Aug 16, 08 4:58 AM CDT

      Work Begins on Controversial San Diego Border Fence

      (Newser) - Construction crews have launched work on a controversial section of the US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, AP reports. The Smuggler's Gulch canyon will be filled with dirt and a fence built at a cost of $16 million a mile. Critics charge the fence is no longer vital and the work will cause serious environmental damage. More »

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      San Diego  • illegal immigration  • Mexican border  • border security  • Border Patrol  • border fence  • Tijuana

    • Lawyers: Dying Immigrant Denied Care in Custody

      New York Times  |  Aug 13, 08 10:00 AM CDT

      Lawyers: Dying Immigrant Denied Care in Custody

      (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, and eventually became too weak to walk or stand, but officials refused to give him a wheelchair or medical examination, his lawyers say. More »

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

  • July 2008
  • June 2008

    • Feds Triple Cases Against Illegals

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 18, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      Feds Triple Cases Against Illegals

      (Newser) - Prosecutions of illegal immigrants have soared in recent months, now accounting for half of all federal cases, the Los Angeles Times reports. Some 9,350 illegal immigrants faced federal charges in March of this year, up from 3,746 in March 2007, as the Bush administration ratcheted up efforts to use jail time, and the prospect of a criminal record, as a tactic to dissuade illegal border crossers. More »

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      Bush administration  • Michael Chertoff  • illegal immigration  • border control  • federal prosecution  • federal cases

    • Hands Bound, States Find Ways to Attack Immigration

      New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 9:13 AM CDT

      Hands Bound, States Find Ways to Attack Immigration

      (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, the New York Times reports. Milton’s illegals were rounded up for identity theft. More »

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

  • May 2008

    • 297 Illegal Immigrants Get Jail in Federal Crackdown

      New York Times  |  May 24, 08 7:08 AM CDT

      297 Illegal Immigrants Get Jail in Federal Crackdown

      (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 plant in Iowa in the biggest immigration raid on a workplace in US history. Until now, undocumented workers have usually been detained and deported. More »

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

    • Illegal Immigration Spurs Identity Theft

      City Journal  |  May 18, 08 6:15 PM CDT

      Illegal Immigration Spurs Identity Theft

      (Newser) - Identity theft and illegal immigration are not only keeping cops busy, they're often linked, Steven Malanga writes in City Journal . Illegals are known to swipe US workers' data to obtain jobs or commit crimes, and the top five states for identity theft have large immigrant populations. But efforts to stop the ID crime wave are drying up. More »

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      Arizona  • Social Security  • identity theft  • illegal immigration  • Internal Revenue Service  • driver's license  • permanent residency

    • US Drugging Foreigners for Deportation

      Washington Post  |  May 14, 08 1:40 PM CDT

      US Drugging Foreigners for Deportation

      (Newser) - The US government injects hundreds of illegal immigrants with dangerous psychotropic drugs to keep them sedated while being deported, the Washington Post reports. The so-called "pre-flight cocktail" often leaves detainees so incapacitated they need a wheelchair to get onto the plane. Used far more often than the "last resort" it's advertised as, the practice violates some international human-rights codes. More »

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      immigrant  • illegal immigration  • deportation  • antipsychotic drugs

    • Thousands Rally for Immigrant Rights

      Associated Press  |  May 1, 08 6:15 PM CDT

      Thousands Rally for Immigrant Rights

      (Newser) - Immigrants and activists took to the streets by the thousands across the US today to put immigration reform back on the election agenda, the AP reports. In Chicago, 15,000 called for an end to deportations and better access to education, and big rallies also took place  in DC, Miami, LA, and Tucson. This May Day turnout, however, didn't appear to rival the 1 million protesters who turned out nationwide in 2006. More »

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      Election 2008  • immigration  • immigration reform  • illegal immigration  • protesters  • political protest

  • April 2008

    • US Plans to Widen DNA Database

      Washington Post  |  Apr 16, 08 9:27 PM CDT

      US Plans to Widen DNA Database

      (Newser) - The US plans to significantly widen its law-enforcement database by taking DNA samples from illegal immigrants picked up by federal authorities and from all people arrested for federal offenses, the Washington Post reports. The feds currently collect genetic information only from those convicted of federal crimes. The expanded policy follows the lead of 13 states. More »

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      crime  • FBI  • DNA  • arrest  • illegal immigration  • ACLU