A civil rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block Gov. Don Carcieri from enforcing an executive order requiring private employers to electronically check the immigration status of new hires.
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An elevator mechanic at Los Angeles International Airport has been arrested in a federal sting operation and charged with smuggling illegal immigrants into the country by taking them out of the terminal before they were screened by authorities, acco
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The Policia Estatal Preventiva in Mexicali arrested eight men Monday afternoon. Police say the men were digging a tunnel that was headed towards Calexico, California.
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Three more former House of Raeford Farms workers were arraigned Aug. 28 on charges of using fake IDs to work for the company's Greenville plant, which is still at the center of an illegal immigration ...
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For more than two years, Otoniel Lopez Cortez arrived at the day labor center before 6:30 a.m. to wait for jobs painting houses.
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Albert J. Stanley, a former executive with a Halliburton subsidiary, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he conspired to pay $182 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in return for contracts to build a $6 billion liquefied natural gas com
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Three days after Hurricane Gustav came ashore on the Gulf Coast, nearly 829,000 households were still without electricity, power company officials said Thursday, warning that power may be restored slowly in the hardest-hit areas.
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Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city.
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SEGUIN -- Labor Day weekend was no holiday for Sheriff's K-9 officer Brian Wahlert. Guadalupe County Sheriff's Investigator Lt. Kevin Jordan said Wahlert, who patrols the county's roads and highways at night with his chocolate lab police
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Sun Valley Floral Farms in Arcata Wednesday morning arresting 18 workers who they allege were not legally allowed to work in the country. Approximately 40 federal agents arrived at Sun Valley Floral Fa
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The vehicle of man suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants collided with two Border Patrol vehicles Tuesday in Nogales while he tried to escape after a struggle with a Border Patrol officer. Officers approached the man about 3 p.m. at a Jumping Ja
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LAKEWOOD -- Four Hackett Street men were charged Tuesday in connection with the assault of a township man and are being held in lieu of bail and on immigration detainers, police said. About 8 p.m. Aug. 23, Officer Kelly Zrebiec responded to a report
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BOSTON--Three of 31 janitorial workers arrested during immigration raids at Rhode Island courthouses in July have agreed to voluntarily return to Mexico. A federal immigration judge in Boston on Wednesday granted voluntary departure to the three men
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Tears ran down my face as my grandmother told an interviewer in Persian the story of her miraculous escape from Iran 25 years ago. I had heard portions of her story many times before, but this time, I was serving as her translator for an on-camera i
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NEWARK (AP) -- An influential New Jersey Muslim leader whom U.S. authorities had sought to link to a terrorist group and have deported has won his fight to gain permanent U.S. residency. A federal immigration judge in Newark ruled Thursday that Moha
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