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Daily Archives: February 20, 2015

For Tomás Péndola, an immigrant from Argentina, it was a normal week teaching chemistry in a public high school here, filling a whiteboard with dense equations and coaxing his students to decipher them. For Yeni Benítez, a Mexican immigrant in Wisconsin, this week was when “everything just fell apart.” Mr. […]

DALLAS (AP) – A prominent Dallas immigration lawyer has been arrested after a federal indictment accused her of submitting fraudulent applications for crime-victim visas for clients. Immigration agents arrested Sherin Thawer on Friday at her home in the Dallas suburb of Coppell (kuh-PEHL’). She appeared before a federal magistrate in […]