U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Bold New immigration Plan -- Give Yourself Up

Legal Action Stirring On Illegal-Alien Raid

State Rep. Kino Flores: If The Collar's Poppin', The ICE Ain't Stoppin'

ICE Won't Be Nabbing Illegals At Hurricane Shelters

Garbage In, Illegals Out

ICE Raids Getting Flack

UPDATED: Miguel Tejada Pleads Guilty To Making Misleading Statement

Miguel Tejada appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of making a misleading statement to Congressional investigators. Tejada acknowledged that he lied when he denied to investigators any knowledge of banned substances being used by other major league players. Prosecut ... More >>

UPDATED: Miguel Tejada Pleads Guilty To Making Misleading Statement

Miguel Tejada appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of making a misleading statement to Congressional investigators. Tejada acknowledged that he lied when he denied to investigators any knowledge of banned substances being used by other major league players. Prosecut ... More >>

Amnesty International Not Impressed With The Immigrant Facilities At Port Isabel

Lack of access to legal counsel and bond hearings were just two things that Amnesty International representatives found trouble with after touring the Port Isabel Detention Center near Brownsville this week."It's very hard to find legal counsel," Sarnata Reynolds told Hair Balls. Reynolds, AI's poli ... More >>

Telemarketing Offers

MGR promises help with federal grants and racks up hundreds of consumer complaints

Swift Meatpacking Plant and Illegal Immigrants

Swift & Company pitted employee against employee when it replaced injured workers with illegal immigrants

U.S. informants take part in murder and drug running in Mexico

Swift & Company pitted employee against employee when it replaced injured workers with illegal immigrants

How did the Virgin of Guadalupe Get Her Name?

Swift & Company pitted employee against employee when it replaced injured workers with illegal immigrants

The Zwicks: "Faith People"

At Casa Juan Diego, compassion -- not green cards -- has always mattered most

Up in the Air

Was this the punch line to a bad racist, homophobic joke or a dry run for a terrorist bombing?

Pretty Please, Tilman

Houston's Donald Trump can't be bothered with paperwork

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Houston's Donald Trump can't be bothered with paperwork

American-born Cajun With Checkered Past Deported From Houston To Honduras

Diane Williams has had a pretty rough life. Over the past 20 years, the 34-year-old black-haired, olive-skinned Cajun of partial Native American ancestry has been arrested numerous times here and her native Louisiana on ticky-tack drug and prostitution charges.At some point, she started resorting to ... More >>

La Migra Arrests A Whole Bunch Of Gang Members

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency -- ICE to illegals and legals alike -- has announced the results of a big round-up of gang members in Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi who are undocumented aliens."Operation Community Shield" resulted in the arrests of 116 gang members and associate ... More >>

An ICE Round-Up Of Sex Offenders Reaps Rewards

​Illegal Alien Sex Offenders is not, as you might imagine, the latest half-assed proto-surfpunk band out of Alief. Instead its the prize caught in a weeklong Houston-area sweep by the feds.The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced late Monday afternoon the results of that sweep -- 2 ... More >>

Shipley Do-Nuts Pays Up For Using Illegal Immigrants

​Shipley Do-Nuts, the oddly spelled longtime Houston morning favorite, will be forking over a ton of cash to the feds for using illegal immigrants in the workplace.The U.S. Attorney's office has announced the company will pay a $250,000 fine and forfeit $1.3 million to the government for harboring ... More >>

If Halloween Is Coming, So Are Offensive Costumes

​The "Illegal Alien" costume causing uproar amongst immigrant rights activists, anti-immigrant supporters and free speech advocates is the first major faux pas of this Halloween season. While anti-immigrant supporters are scrambling to find the costume, immigrant rights activists are calling for ... More >>

ICE Chills Mambo Seafood

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided two outposts of the seven-restaurant Mambo Seafood chain yesterday and hauled off 33 suspected illegal aliens. According to KHOU, ICE also raided the company's corporate office and hauled off boxes of documents, but refused to release details. ... More >>

Crash Reports

Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.

Big Brother Is Watching You Buy Cellophane

​Police in the Rio Grande Valley have a new tactic in the war against pot smugglers: staking out office supply stores. In three cases since last November, suspects have been followed after making large purchases of cellophane. Here's more on the most recent case, from Valleycentral.com. U. ... More >>

Carrie Kelly Might Not Be One Of The Rare Female Child-Porn Dealers, But Her Mugshot Ain't Helping Her Case

Brazoria County SOCarrie Kelly, accused child-porn fan, rocking the tats​It's not everyday you get word of a woman being nabbed on child-porn charges, especially a woman allegedly working on her own and not with a sicko husband or boyfriend.But in the small Brazoria County town of Richwood, police ... More >>

Right-Wing Porn

Blogger disseminates filth.

Jennifer Martinez: Posing As A Bribe-able Immigration Official

If you're going to bribe someone, at least make sure they're legit​A woman who posed as an immigration officer took cash from hopeful immigrants, promising to get the papers, will get almost five years in prison for her trouble.Jennifer Martinez, 36, of McAllen, was sentenced here in Houston today ... More >>

Badlands

From Ground Zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border

Cowboy Down

Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher.

What's a Little Marriage Fraud Between Amigos?

It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship.

Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Asylum Denied

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

Blades of Gory

When it's not LOL-funny, ­Robert Rodriguez's Machete is downright dull.

Sheriff Adrian Garcia Helps Feds Trumpet Stats On Illegal-Alien Removals

Photo by Austin MillerSheriff Adrian Garcia, hyping the Obama administration​The Immigration & Customs Enforcement department brought in some help for today's announcement in Washington about how great they're doing removing illegal aliens: Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia.Garcia appeared w ... More >>

Prison Pays

Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private prison corporation GEO keeps getting contracts from the state.

Elicio Moctezuma-Cisneros: Shootout with Fake ICE Cop Reveals Smuggling Ring; Gets Four Years

Fake ICE cops: Just another hassle for the alien smuggler​Elicio Moctezuma-Cisneros was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for smuggling aliens, kidnapping, returning to the U.S. after he'd been deported, all kinds of things. If it seems a crowded career, you haven't heard the odd ... More >>

Dale Allen Richardson Jr.: This Badge Means I'm an Attorney!

OF COURSE I'm a lawyer​A 28-year-old Plano man is going to federal prison for more than five years after falsely claiming to be a lawyer -- despite submitting a badge declaring him to be an "Officer of the Court" of the Cherokee Nation. That's not good enough? Well, it isn't when a clerk for ... More >>

Bryan McCarthy: Deer Park Man Arrested for Illegally Livestreaming Sporting Events

Bryan McCarthy: Channel surfing can get you arrested​Federal agents today arrested Bryan McCarthy, 32, for running a Web site that illegally livestreamed NFL games, pay-per-view fights and other sporting events. The operator of channelsurfing.net was arrested at his Deer Park home without inc ... More >>

Restaurant Lawyer David Jordan on Tip Pools and Illegal Immigration

​David Jordan is a partner in the Houston office of Littler Mendelson, an international law firm specializing in labor and employment law. Before he was a lawyer, Jordan worked in the restaurant industry for several years: flipping burgers at Burger King when he was in high school; working in ... More >>

Peru Gets Back Stolen Artifact Seized At Bush Intercontinental

Nabbed in Houston.​A book from the 1700s that a traveler tried to smuggle through Bush Intercontinental has been formally returned to the country of Peru, federal officials said today. The manuscript had been stolen from the Recoleta Library in Arequipa, Peru, they said. A man with a record ... More >>

Texas: Immigration Detention Capital of the Country

In Texas, illegal immigration is often extremely lucrative.​Texas is number one again today. To our trophy case of great honors, we add Most Beholden To Private Corporations, When It Comes To Illegal Immigration. The Detention Watch Network recently released aggregated data about the big busi ... More >>

Nationwide ICE Crackdown Nets 91 Illegal-Immigrant Arrests In Houston

ICE nets some bad guys​The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced today that more than 2,400 criminal illegal aliens or fugitives had been arrested in a nationwide crackdown last month, and 91 of them were in Houston. "All of the criminal aliens taken into custody had pr ... More >>

Raul Leal: Immigrant Detention Center Officer Kicked Detainee in the Face, Breaking Skull, Feds Say

The Port Isabel Detention Center has long been the subject of complaints.​A former officer at the Port Isabel Detention Center kicked a detainee in the face, breaking a bone in his skull, and then lied to investigators, federal prosecutors alleged today. Raul Leal, 31, was arrested without in ... More >>

Humberto Flores: Comes Home to Questions from Cops about His Abandoned Kids, and from His Wife about Those Hickeys on His Neck

Home Alone: Not like in the movies.​You leave the house to go see a lady friend. Your four-year-old kid is obviously mature enough to look after your one-year-old kid, especially when you're horny. Here's what you don't want to run into when you come back a few hours later: The cops waiting t ... More >>

National Illegal Immigrant Sting Nets Over 2,900 Convicted Criminals, 125 in Houston

Slightly more dangerous than these guys.​On Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results of its "Cross Check" enforcement operation targeting convicted criminals who are also illegal immigrants. The sting conducted in all 50 states netted 2,901 criminals, ... More >>

More Than 20,000 Deported from South Texas in 2011, Feds Say

La Migra piles up the numbers.​The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced its deportation numbers today for fiscal 2011, which ended in September. Nationwide almost 400,000 were deported -- an ICE record -- and more than 20,000 were deported from South Texas, the agency ... More >>

Noel Sosa-Ruiz: Bizarre End For Man Who Killed His Kids' Mother At Her Office

Photo by HPDNoel Sosa-Ruiz: Tries to escape to Cuba​The death of 29-year-old Yodani Cruz-Rojas was odd enough -- the father of her children walked into the suburban dentist's office where she worked and killed her in a hail of gunfire -- but now there's an odd finale. The suspected killer, No ... More >>