Subject: Immigration and Naturalization Service

• Double Trouble

  Juan Diaz just wanted his citizenship. The feds wanted a drug-running felon.

  August 19, 2004

• Losing Track

  August 25, 1994

• End Times

  February 29, 1996

• The Invisible Girl

  May 9, 1996

• Lovely Latin Ladies

  August 1, 1996

• "One-Man Mob"

  May 8, 1997

• Numbers Man

  May 14, 1998

• Deporting Disparities

  August 6, 1998

• Child Trek

  June 10, 1999

• News of the Weird

  September 2, 1999

• Still Stumbling

  June 1, 2000

• Hispanics Delivered by Border Midwives Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Passports

  Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  December 18, 2008

• Rejection Slips

  The INS defends our borders and deports immigrant criminals. Sometimes, though, in its zeal, it tosses out perfectly law-abiding, hardworking people too.

  January 25, 2001

• A Killer Nanny

  Charlotte Foster wanted a male nanny who’d play sports with her sons. She got an escaped murderer.

  March 6, 2003

• Letter from Uzbekistan

  Spoiled meat, fermented mare's milk and a president who says he'd rip off his kid's head -- such is Wil Wuerdig's life as a musician in Central Asia

  February 6, 2003

• The Usual Suspect

  South African refugee calls deputies to complain about intruders, ends up arrested himself

  June 9, 2005

• Why Can't They Be Friends?

  Bill and Annise confront a City Hall curse

  December 11, 2003

• In Search of Lost Time

  Robert Conran jumped from the frying pan and into the fire. Then they turned up the heat.

  June 20, 2002

• Creative Interpretations

  Vindication comes a year after "Agent 307" prevented Mahotella Queens from performing at I-Fest

  April 18, 2002

• Tick Tock, Your Time Is Up

  Foreign students at the Glassell School of Art get a stipend, studio space and three years to make it really big. They've had a huge impact on Houston's art scene. But if the INS isn't impressed, they've got to go.

  July 26, 2001

• The Bored Patrol

  Border Patrol agents in South Texas contend they are getting paid to stay put as illegal immigrants go around them. Is this how the much-hyped crackdown along the Rio Grande is supposed to work?

  June 21, 2001

• The Hitch

  Matrimonial safe haven hits Harris County. But the INS honeymoon ends with April.

  March 29, 2001

• Border Line

  In the predawn hours, immigrants face an eternity of waiting at the INS office

  March 1, 2001

• Chinese Puzzle

  An Asian mother loses her first asylum battle

  January 4, 2001

• Insider

  Not Ready for Prime Time. Continental may have taught the mayor how to fly right

  October 7, 1999

• Borderline Bond

  Local judges go anti-immigrant in bail policies

  October 7, 1999

• Ana's Angel

  Jay Hamburger rushed in where others feared to tread ... only to find that no good deed goes unpunished

  April 4, 1996