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Victim of domestic violence gets special visa after children killed
comments () One of my co-workers told me about a federal policy that makes it possible for illegal immigrant women to receive special visas to encourage them to go to authorities when they are abused,...
View ArticleMore on Arlington police and the immigration debate
comments ()Earlier this week, we told you that police officials from around the country were going to make some statements about immigration issues and how they pertain to their jurisdictions. The...
View ArticleIrving police hosting dialogue with Hispanic community this Thursday night
comments ()The Irving Police Department is hosting the fourth in a series of dialogues with the Hispanic community regarding immigration issues. More details below. visit site to read more]
View ArticleICE cracks down on criminal aliens here, nationwide
comments ()An Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiative resulted in the arrest of more than 2,400 convicted criminal aliens and fugitives last month, including 140 in Texas and Oklahoma, the...
View ArticleNumber of illegal immigrants deported for drunken driving rises
comments ()The number of illegal immigrants deported after being arrested for drunken driving soared last year according to the Associated Press. Of the almost 400,000 people deported in the last...
View ArticleObama administration puts student, other deportations on hold to focus on...
comments ()Staff Writer Dianne Solis brings us this update on immigration today: Senior Obama administration officials announced this afternoon that more than 300,000 immigrants will have their...
View ArticleICE responds to WFAA’s report on Oak Cliff teen’s account of her deportation...
comments ()Here’s the response from Barbara Gonzalez of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to WFAA’s story on Jakadrien Turner from last night. “ICE has found no evidence to substantiate the claims by...
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Government sued by mother of Dallas teen who was deported after giving false...
comments ()Jakadrien Larise Turner falsely told police she was a Colombian adult when she was arrested for shoplifting last April in Houston. The mother of a teenage Dallas … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleFederal audit: Dallas County overcharged government for prosecuting border crime
comments ()Dallas County will have to pay the federal government almost half a million dollars for overcharges related to a special border crime program. The county will pay $450,631 to the U.S....
View ArticleFederal agents arrest immigrant sex offenders living in North Texas
comments ()State police and federal immigration agents have arrested 24 men from across North Texas during a five-day effort to remove convicted sex offenders and other criminals from the streets and...
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After Garland PD alleges soccer coach sexually assaulted 10-year-old boy,...
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View ArticleDISD sergeant has confessed to harboring undocumented immigrant to babysit...
comments ()A Dallas school district police sergeant has confessed to conspiring to bring a teen-age undocumented immigrant to the United States to babysit his child, according to federal court records....
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Accused rapist to be extradited to Dallas from Mexico
More than three years after he slipped away from charges that he raped two underage girls, Jose Rico will be extradited back to Dallas from Mexico, Dallas … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleMan who may have used deportation to evade trial on charges of sexually...
Back in November 2009, I wrote a story that nearly 1,000 defendants had been identified by the Dallas County DA’s office as being deported before they could be brought to trial. One of those...
View Article‘Safety checkpoint’ for driver licenses in Dallas’ Pleasant Grove causes...
A driver’s license “checkpoint” in Pleasant Grove, a heavily immigrant area, caused worries this afternoon that federal immigration agents were stopping Latinos in actions that could lead to...
View ArticleLake Highlands rape suspect’s DNA matches that of three sexual assaults
Update at 5:25 p.m. Thursday: Dallas police have confirmed that the Lake Highlands rape suspect’s DNA matches all three sexual assaults since February. Cesar Benitez’s DNA matches the evidence...
View ArticleOthers held against their will in the United States?
What happened to three women who were kidnapped, held in bondage, beaten and repeatedly raped in Cleveland for a decade raises questions about how many others in the United States are being held...
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Nigerian immigrant ordered removed from U.S. refuses to board plane
Aluya Federal immigration agents walked Oghenero Peter Toritseju Aluya to Terminal E at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a one-way ticket to Nigeria. It was April 29, … [visit site to...
View ArticleDog-stabber pleads guilty, faces prison time
A 19-year-old man accused of stabbing a Border Patrol dog has pleaded guilty to willfully and maliciously harming a police animal and illegally entering the country, federal officials reported...
View ArticleDeported man returned to U.S. with more immigrants illegally in tow, feds say
A man who had been deported has been indicted in federal court on allegations that he returned to the country while illegally smuggling in others, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas announced...
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Human-trafficking foes visit Dallas-Fort Worth to exchange ideas with local...
Secretary of State John Kerry congratulated TIP Report Hero Susan Ople during a ceremony in Washington last week. (AP photo) A group of international freedom fighters was lauded Tuesday in Arlington,...
View ArticleFeds in Dallas deport man wanted in El Salvador for human trafficking
A man from El Salvador who is wanted by his country for human trafficking was deported on Monday and turned over to police there, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jose Ricardo...
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Feds in Dallas deport gang member wanted for murder
Interiano-Calderon was deported to his native country by federal immigration officers. (ICE) Federal immigration authorities deported a Salvadoran gang member on … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleTexas company that couldn’t find U.S. citizens to drive its buses headed to...
A Texas bus company that hired foreign workers to drive its buses is in hot water with the feds. Justice department officials allege that the company sought to hire those drivers on work visas that...
View ArticleAuthorities find 91 grams of heroin, thousands in cash during immigration arrest
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Dallas man among dozens charged with making Hispanic immigrants work long...
ICE agents make arrests as part of Thursday's roundup. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) A Dallas man is one of dozens who have been charged in federal court with forcing Hispanic immigrants...
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Feds and Dallas police bust 10 massage parlors, arrest 21 foreign nationals
Federal agents and Dallas police raid a local massage parlor to crack down on the local sex industry. (ICE) A local police task force has raided 10 Dallas … [visit site to read more]
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Attorney General Holder recognizes federal prosecution team that won...
(Jim Mahoney/The Dallas Morning News)Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and his wife Sheila Farrington Hill (center) address the media outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building after jurors returned...
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Salvadoran criminal who kept returning to the U.S. is deported for fourth time
(ICE)Zavala returns to El Salvador following his deportation from the U.S. A Salvadoran man who committed various crimes in the U.S. over the years was deported Wednesday … [visit site to read more]
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Local immigration lawyer arrested on fraud charges involving visas
Thawer received the Small Business of the Year Award in 2011 from the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber. An Irving immigration lawyer was arrested Friday … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleDallas authorities deport Brazilian fugitive wanted for killing 13-year-old boy
Federal authorities in Dallas deported a Brazilian man Tuesday who is accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy and turned him over to police in that country. Jorge Amauri Domingos-Nascimento, 52, has an...
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Authorities: Two men had more than four pounds of meth in South Dallas apartment
Eric Rangel (left) and Rigoberto Moreno (right) Two men had more than four pounds of methamphetamine in a South Dallas … [visit site to read more]
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Feds: suspended immigration lawyer continued to practice law after fraud arrest
Suspended immigration attorney Sherin Thawer was released from federal custody on a personal recognizance bond after her February arrest on fraud charges. Thawer, who is accused of forging visa...
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Irving immigration lawyer back in federal custody until September trial
Almost four months after she was indicted on federal charges of fraud, U.S. marshals took Sherin Thawer back into custody Monday after she violated the terms of her pre-trial release by continuing to...
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Feds in North Texas round up criminals who are in the U.S. illegally
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Irving Immigration lawyer to plead guilty to identity theft
An Irving immigration lawyer accused of forging visa applications for unauthorized immigrants has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to one of the seven counts against her, court records show....
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Mother, daughter sentenced to years in federal prison for committing marriage...
In January 2014 nine people were indicted on 10 counts, chief among them: “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States” and “Conspiracy to Commit Marriage Fraud.” That lengthy indictment, which is below,...
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Dallas tree service tried to hide its employment of unauthorized immigrants
Apollos Philip A Dallas tree service with a history of hiring unauthorized immigrants continued to employ them using fake staffing companies even after being raided by immigration authorities, court...
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Dallas immigration lawyer gets 2 years in federal prison for visa fraud scheme
A Dallas immigration lawyer who forged visa applications for unauthorized immigrants was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison. Sherin Thawer, 45, of Coppell, pleaded guilty in August to a...
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Border Patrol nabs 102 immigrants who crossed Rio Grande illegally
Border Patrol agents witnessed more than 100 people cross the Rio Grande on Tuesday. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Border Patrol agents … [visit site to read more]
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Brothers get 7 years in prison for visa fraud scheme to create low-cost...
Two brothers who illegally recruited H-1B visa workers to create a low-cost workforce for their Carrollton computer consultation company were each sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison....
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