IMMIGRATION

(José Niño, Headline USA) On Monday, the Justice Department announced charges involving 16 people in election related cases across the country, including alleged illegal voting by noncitizens, fraudulent voter registration, multiple voting, and an alleged attempt to cast a deceased person’s ballot. The cases span at least 10 federal districts...

(Headline USA) Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to public reports. The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents. More details about the investigation and its focus were not immediately clear, though Vice President JD Vance last May...

(Headline USA)U.S. Homeland Security officials said Friday that immigration officers feared for their lives when they shot a man driving with his young son in New York, wounding him and sparking protests in the city. Local police released surveillance camera and body camera footage of the chaotic moments before and...

(Headline USA) Federal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man in New York because he drove his car into officers' vehicles and they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday. The 28-year-old man, whom New York City police identified as Oscar Belgal,...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud. “If you do the math, for every worker that...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has purchased more California properties for the purpose of using them as detention centers. The latest transaction involves the Adelanto ICE Processing Center and Desert View Annex. The facilities are in Adelanto, a city in Southern California's San Bernardino...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The feds have charged 16 immigrants in connection with illegal voting, false voter registration and other related offenses, the DOJ announced Monday. The cases originate from Florida, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and involve allegations tied to several U.S. elections, including the 2022 Minnesota state general election, the...

(Headline USA) An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a “house of horrors,” prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were arrested at their sprawling mansion in Arcadia, a city about 13 miles...

(Headline USA) A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas will remain in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Dustin Howell said that the case against Wilber Rafael Garces...

(Joelle Webb, The Center Square) Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state. The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to stop or temporarily delay the construction of a detention facility...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A new DHS Office of Inspector General report identified several screening and documentation problems in asylum cases involving Afghan evacuees admitted after the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The report examined how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services handled asylum claims under Operation Allies Welcome. The audit reviewed...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Gov. Gavin Newsom early Tuesday signed several bills to protect California’s immigrants, crack down on private jails and prisons, and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of the state’s police departments. The package of bills, 21 in all, were all authored by Democratic...