By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press, WASHINGTON (AP) 02/11 — The Justice Department ratcheted up legal pressure Monday on local governments over “sanctuary” policies that hinder federal immigration officers,
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By JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 01/18 — Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City’s so-called sanctuary policies,
NEW YORK (AP) 08/18 — The New York Police Department in the year ending June 30 has rejected all requests from the federal government to hold detained immigrants past their release date.
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) 08/14 — The images of children crying after their parents were arrested in a massive immigration raid in Mississippi revived a longstanding complaint: Unauthorized workers are jailed or deported,
By COLLEEN LONG and SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 07/23 — An immigration enforcement operation that President Donald Trump said was part of an effort to deport “millions”
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) 07/18 — A Guatemalan man who apparently entered the U.S. illegally after being deported twice has been charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children.
WASHINGTON (AP) 07/18 — The Latest on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): 7:45 p.m. The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the Trump administration’s new policy banning most asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border is being rolled out as a pilot program.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) 07/15 — Demonstrators returned to an immigration jail in Washington state a day after an armed man threw incendiary devices at the detention center and later died.Read more »
By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) 07/14 — As a nationwide immigration crackdown loomed, religious leaders across the country used their pulpits Sunday to quell concerns in immigrant communities and spring into action to help those potentially threatened by the operation.
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) 07/12 — A federal appeals court gave President Donald Trump a rare legal win in his efforts to crack down on “sanctuary cities”
By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) 06/25 — The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned after her agency failed to terminate the commercial driving license of a man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural New Hampshire road left seven bikers dead.
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) 04/29 — Prosecutors in Massachusetts sued Monday to block federal authorities from making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally,
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) 04/25 — A Massachusetts judge was indicted Thursday on charges that she helped a man who was living in the U.S.
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) 04/04 — A federal judge says he will rule in the near future on the constitutionality of a government watchlist that includes more than 1 million people the FBI considers to be “known or suspected terrorists.”
By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) 01/31 — Dongyuan Li’s business was called “You Win USA,” and authorities say she coached pregnant Chinese women on how to get into the United States to deliver babies who would automatically enjoy all the benefits of American citizenship.
PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) 12/18 — A man who went on a deadly shooting, carjacking and robbery rampage in California’s Central Valley died Monday during a high-speed highway chase during which he intentionally tried to smash into other cars,
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ANGELIKI KASTANIS, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) 12/ 18 — Shackled at their ankles and wrists and their shoelaces removed,
By KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press DENVER (AP) 12/07 — A Colorado sheriff’s practice of continuing to jail people suspected of being in the country illegally on behalf of federal authorities is unconstitutional,
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) 12/08 — Dozens of people were arrested in New Jersey last week as part of a five-day federal immigration sweep.
Federal officials say the 105 people taken into custody included several who were wanted by Interpol for alleged crimes in their home countries.
BOSTON (AP) 12/07 — Federal immigration officials have apprehended dozens of people suspected of living in the country illegally in a series of sweeps in New England.Read more »