Obama border strategy emphasizes enforcement
On a Southwest tour, Obama administration members laid out their strategy for border security and narcotics control—emphasizing an enforcement partnership with Mexico’s President Calderón.
On a Southwest tour, Obama administration members laid out their strategy for border security and narcotics control—emphasizing an enforcement partnership with Mexico’s President Calderón.
Scott Roeder, arrested in the slaying of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, is a member of the Montana Freemen, and apparently chose to act on the anniversary of the arrest of Eric Rudolph.
A US federal judge sentenced the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and five of its officials pursuant to their convictions of providing material support to Palestinian group Hamas.
The right-wing hate circuit is reaping a windfall from the “Swine Flu” scare. Talk radio hosts Michael Savage and Jay Severin both take the opportunity to contagion-bait “illegal aliens.”
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin as special representative for border affairs, charged with overseeing enforcement efforts.
The number of immigrants detained by the US has drastically increased over the last decade, according to ICE figures released under the FOIA, with 32,000 now held—a fivefold jump since 1994.
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona’s Maricopa County following months of complaints of discriminatory immigration enforcement.
A judge upheld guilty verdicts against five men convicted of plotting to attack Fort Dix. The defense argued there was no plot, but the government paid informants to get the accused to discuss one.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Phoenix this weekend to protest Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and policies that critics charge violate immigrants’ basic human rights.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a Justice Department request to stop a suit brought by an Islamic charity alleging it was subject to illegal surveillance by the National Security Agency
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has called for a review of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace immigration raid that occurred in Bellingham, WA.