The Moroccan migrant rapist suspected of killing a 19-year-old French girl in an affluent neighbourhood of Paris in September will finally be extradited back to France after fleeing to Switzerland.
The Texas Department of Public Safety added two child sex offenders to the State’s 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List. The two men replace two other criminal illegal immigrants from the list following their arrests.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials announced the arrest of 12 dangerous “criminal illegal immigrants” from the State’s most-wanted lists.
Convicted fraudster and Ghanaian national Kweku Adoboli, 38, who was responsible for the biggest trading loss in UK banking history, has accused the Home Office of “racism” for deporting him for his crime.
The mother of a teenage son who was tortured and murdered by an illegal immigrant broke down in tears Tuesday before a House panel, begging for the government to enforce immigration law.
More than 80 criminal aliens were arrested in Utah during a multi-day sweep across the state last week for crimes the Obama administration has deemed serious enough to warrant deportation proceedings.
A group of immigrant-rights advocates says it would be unfair to deport the roughly 2,000 convicted criminal immigrants released from prison due to new sentencing guidelines.
The legislation would restrict federal funds and grants to sanctuary cities and channel the funding to jurisdictions that comply with immigration authorities. It would also affirm local law enforcement’s right to comply with immigration officials and establish a mandatory minimum sentence for criminal immigrants convicted of illegally re-entering the U.S.
In advance of a procedural vote on legislation targeting jurisdictions that do not cooperate with immigration officials — sanctuary cities — Senate Judiciary Committee staffers are highlighting the support the legislation is receiving from the families of criminal alien crime victims.
One in every five Border Patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border last year was of a criminal alien, the head of the union representing border patrol agents testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee.
The four-day enforcement action took place last week. Fifty-six percent of the arrestees had serious and/or violent felony convictions including sex crimes against children, weapons charges, and drug convictions. The remaining 44 percent had “significant or multiple misdemeanors.” Four of the criminal immigrants had been previously deported and illegally reentered the U.S., including a Mexican national convicted of “sexual abuse with force” in New York.
The Obama administration’s new “Priority Enforcement Program” will result in the release of thousands of criminal aliens back onto American streets, according to National Sheriffs’ Association executive director Jonathan Thompson and Jackson County, Texas Sheriff A.J. Louderback.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released Wednesday reveal that 70 percent of likely Republican voters believe the U.S. should build a wall alone the southern border. Just 17 percent of GOP voters disagreed and 13 percent were undecided. The wall would be aimed at blocking illegal immigrants.
Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) slammed the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday for releasing three violent criminal aliens into Arizona.
“Our Department of Homeland Security needs to focus more on securing our homeland, not on cornering the market as a transportation option for illegal aliens in the United States,” Salmon said.
Keane Dean, a 26-year old from the Philippines, was arrested last week in Los Angeles County after authorities discovered a 14-year old girl — whose parents reported her missing — was in Dean’s garage, according to the Associated Press.
“While President Obama is visiting the federal prison in El Reno, I hope he will address the most pressing issue in criminal justice reform, which is the 347,000 convicted criminal immigrants living in our communities today largely due to the president’s lax immigration policies,” Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) said in a statement.
CBP arrested Ignacio Luque Verdugo, a 31-year-old Mexican citizen, after he illegally entered the U.S. about three miles west of the Calexico, California port of entry on Friday morning. When CBP ran Luque’s information through law enforcement databases they discovered he was wanted, on an active felony warrant, for First Degree Murder in Colorado.
Gowdy sparred with the lone witness at the hearing, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson over the release of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez — who later allegedly shot and killed Steinle — by the sanctuary city of San Francisco, pointing out that the multiple-felon, multiple-deportee illegal immigrant reveals a lack of control over the border.
According to new information provided to the Judiciary Committee by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and shared in advance of the hearing with Breitbart News, of the 30,558 criminal immigrants — convicted of 79,059 crimes — released last fiscal year, 1,423 went on to commute additional crimes after being released.
“The actions taken by the Obama Administration to weaken the interior enforcement of our immigration laws have created a public safety crisis,” Goodlatte said in a statement to Brietbart News Wednesday. DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson is slated to appear before Goodlatte’s committee next week to testify about the Obama administration’s enforcement efforts.
The administration announced the elimination of the highly successful Secure Communities program and put PEP in its place last year in conjunction with the executive amnesty programs President Obama offered up in November. “Under PEP, countless criminal aliens who have managed to evade conviction will be released, endangering our communities. More crimes will be committed, and precious resources will be spent to re-apprehend these individuals, a process that significantly endangers the safety of your officers and agents,” a group of Senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson Tuesday.
In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions. In 2014 the administration released another 30,558 criminal immigrants, who had a total of 79,059 convictions.
A Pakistani man accused of organising a bomb attack on a Peshawar market that killed 134 people including women and children has been arrested in Rome. He is thought to have been part of a group planning a similar attack
More than 3,700 “Threat Level 1” criminal immigrants were released from custody last year, according to new data obtained by Congress and revealed by The Washington Times.
The Obama administration continues to release deportable criminal aliens from custody “at a rapid pace,” according to Center for Immigration Studies expert Jessica Vaughan.
Thirteen people have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud following a police investigation into allegations that hundreds of Bangladeshis flew into Britain for just one day in order to fraudulently claim British benefits. The migrants, who gained EU
A Polish man who has admitted to the rape and murder of a nine-year-old French girl was on his way to England at the time of the crime, a French court has heard. Zbigniew Huminski, 38, was on his way
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña struggled to explain the reasons behind the Obama administration’s release of thousands of criminal immigrants when pressed by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) offered a scathing opening statement about the decline in interior immigration enforcement under the Obama administration at an oversight hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday.
