New York City NY September 2 2023 He is the wanted poster boy for the migrant crisis. A man who arrived in New York City two months ago from Venezuela has randomly attacked at least three strangers and two cops and gotten arrested – and released – six times on 14 different charges, police and […]
Washington DC January 28, 2022 The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) process allows people who are illegally present in the country to use their own arrest warrants as a valid form of identification, according to letters provided to The Texan. Earlier this month, TSA Administrator David Pekoske confirmed the policy in response to an inquiry submitted […]
Washington DC Dec 2 2021 ICE authorized just 20,858 arrests in the six months after the Biden administration announced new rules restricting which illegal immigrants could be targeted — or an average of just one arrest every two months for each deportation officer. That’s down exponentially from the Trump years, when the rate averaged two […]
Salt Lake City Utah April 18 2021 Vicky Chávez and her two young daughters have lived at First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City for three years. In 2014, Ms. Chávez fled domestic abuse and violence in Honduras, seeking asylum in the United States. After her asylum application was denied, federal immigration officials ordered her […]
California November 4 2019 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is rushing to secure new detention space in three California cities before the state bans for-profit prisons, including immigration detention facilities, on Jan. 1. The agency is looking to lock in contracts for four privately operated facilities in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, […]
MCALLEN, Texas March 25 2019— Border security officials and charitable organizations are overwhelmed this week as a record number of asylum-seeking families continue to cross the border. U.S. Border Patrol officials said they are being forced to release hundreds of migrants into the South Texas community of McAllen, resulting in the first time undocumented families […]
ATLANTA GA Sept 8 2018 – Atlanta is preparing to permanently end its relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in regards to accepting immigration detainees at the Atlanta City Jail, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday. “We will no longer be complicit with a policy that intentionally inflicts misery on a vulnerable population without […]
Washington DC Jan 11 2018 U.S. immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency. Agents targeted about 100 stores nationwide, broadening an investigation that began with a 4-year-old case against […]
Los Angeles CA Jan 11 2018 Federal Homeland Security agents raided 20 alleged “maternity hotels” in Southern California where pregnant Chinese women pay tens of thousands of dollars to live to ensure a “made in America” baby, reports said. The feds raided locations in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties on Tuesday, targeting three competing […]
GREENVILLE, SC June 12 2017 A Greenville woman is charged with human trafficking and impersonating a Homeland Security officer In late 2016, the Greenville Police Department joined the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Task Force by assigning a detective to investigate crimes related to federal and state human trafficking laws. In early 2017, in […]