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By Mark Wilson, American-Statesman Staff Immigration authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of 45 people in Austin as part of a wider federal operation earlier this month that targeted undocumented immigrants with criminal histories throughout South and Central Texas. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, agents arrested a total […]

DALLAS — A Dallas attorney pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas. Special agents with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigated this case. Bilal Ahmed Khaleeq, 47, will […]

WASHINGTON — A Dominican national pleaded guilty Feb. 16 for his role in a scheme to sell the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and corresponding identity documents to individuals illegally residing in the United States. This guilty plea was announced by the following agency heads: Acting Assistant Attorney General […]

By Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker Democrats wanted this debate,” Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, said Thursday, after the Senate spent the better part of a week trying, and failing, to reach a deal on immigration reform. Last month, to corral enough votes to keep the government running, he […]