Immigration and New Americans

3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (293+ words) The proposal also could face legal challenges from higher education groups or business associations that could delay it. WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (440+ words) The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study. EDITOR'S…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (587+ words) Tropical cyclone expected to form in Gulf this week Nigerian military plane crashes, killing all 32 aboard Turkish passenger plane evacuated after note claims explosives aboard U.S. Marine arrested over robbery and murder of woman in Japan Aid worker with Ebola evacuated…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (699+ words) A suspected migrant boat carrying 14 people was intercepted south of Newport Beach, and everyone aboard was taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody. The interception follows several recent suspected migrant boat incidents in and around Newport Beach. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Another suspected…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (476+ words) WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has purchased three immigrant detention facilities in Adelanto for $950 million, according to the private prison corporation that sold them. The sale by the GEO Group, a Florida-based government contractor, follows an initial $1.5-billion sale…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (158+ words) LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles World Airports is responding to reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating at Los Angeles International Airport. Cellphone video recorded Friday night shows federal law enforcement agents arresting a woman and placing her into…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (508+ words) LOS ANGELES - The alleged leader of a massive human smuggling ring has been sentenced to 262 months in federal prison for orchestrating the illegal transport of roughly 20,000 Guatemalan migrants into the United States. Operating out of the Westlake neighborhood of Los…...

1+ week, 18+ min ago   (382+ words) Los Angeles police officers are required to record federal immigration enforcement activity in the city of Los Angeles with their body-worn cameras under a new city ordinance. Mayor Karen Bass, who issued a similar executive directive after large-scale immigration enforcement…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (293+ words) The changes stem from H.R. 1, a federal law that changes how the government classifies some immigration statuses and determines whether certain adults qualify for federally funded, full-scope Medi-Cal, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services. Certain Cuban…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (861+ words) For the last two years, Francesca Ortega insulted Latinos on social media with rhetoric that sounded straight from Stephen Miller. But we’re now coming upon a midterm election where conservative Latinos are once again ridiculed as self-hating freaks, as Ortega…...