San Francisco Changes Tack on Immigrant Minors
San Francisco is changing the way it deals with illegal immigrant minors who encounter trouble with law enforcement. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave approval on Tuesday to a new measure that would prevent law enforcement from giving minors to immigration authorities unless they have been found guilty of a felony. The move reverses [...]
Puerto Rico Human Smuggler Gets Three Years
A Dominican man that was smuggling illegal immigrants to Puerto Rico across the ocean was recently sentenced to three years in prison. The trip took the lives of three of the immigrants on board. Simeon de la Cruz was the captain of a vessel that landed in western Puerto Rico carrying around seventy illegal immigrants [...]
Man Asks to be Deported, Can’t Afford U.S.
Members of the Framingham, Mass. Police Department recently reported that an illegal immigrant from Guatemala entered their police station, telling officers that he had stolen another man’s identity. He asked to be deported because he could no longer afford to live in the United States. Officials say that twenty-nine-year-old Carlos Boc was arrested after his [...]
Two Drivers Arrested After Border Shootout
San Diego police arrested two of the drivers that recently tried to race three vans packed with illegal immigrants through the largest border crossing in the country. Immigration agents fired across nine lanes of traffic to stop the vans, hitting three people and critically injuring one of them. A fourth person was injured when one [...]