Illegal Immigration and Deportation

Two Men, En Route to Plano to Buy a Car, Say They Were Jailed for 39 Days without Cause

Jaime Moreno-Gutierrez and Roberto Moreno-Gutierrez just wanted to reduce their carbon footprint. Or maybe they just wanted to save on gas costs. Either way, they sold their gas-guzzling 2004 GMC Envoy and set off from their home in Killeen on March 31, 2011, and headed for Plano, where a dealership ... More >>

Do Mexicans Cause the Closures of Hospitals?

And how many cases of leprosy come from Mexico per year?

Illegal Immigrant Says He Had No Idea There Were 15 Assault Rifles in His Trunk

On Thursday afternoon, patrol officers performed a routine traffic stop in Oak Cliff. They found that the driver, 24-year-old Jesus Gonzalez, wasn't wearing a seat belt, was driving without a license, and was in the country illegally. They also found a little bonus prize: 15 AK-style assault rifles ... More >>

Dallas ICE Agent Sues ICE, Homeland Security Over Obama's Deportation Deferral

Ten ICE agents, including one from the Dallas office, are suing ICE and Homeland Security in a Dallas federal court over a directive from President Barack Obama that would defer in some cases the deportation of undocumented immigrants brought here as children. Dallas enforcement and removal officer ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Rape So Much?

And why do they always yell "Cu-le-ro" at bands they love?

In Farmers Branch Immigration Fight, Competing Readings of Supreme Court's Arizona Ruling

Opposing counsel in a six-year legal battle over a proposed Farmers Branch immigration ordinance are trading letters to the judge, arguing, naturally, that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Arizona's immigration law supports their side. Last month, the high court struck down every provision of Ari ... More >>

What the Supreme Court's Ruling On Arizona's Immigration Law Means for Farmers Branch

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down much of Arizona's illegal immigration law Monday morning, leaving its most controversial, show-me-your-papers provision standing, and that only provisionally. Experts say the decision provides a road map to federal courts evaluating immigration laws enacted in plac ... More >>

Farmers Branch Has Spent Five Years and Millions of Dollars Trying to Keep Out Mexicans. Is It Time for a Truce?

Texas Attorney General Responds To Obama Immigration Announcement With Rather Misleading Tweet

Do you agree with #Obama's decision to stop deporting illegal immigrants? chron.com/news/houston-t...— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 15, 2012 Today, President Barack Obama announced an executive order effective immediately that will protect undocumented immigrants under the age of 30 who ... More >>

Hispanics Not Thrilled With Obama, But They Still Won't Vote For Rick Perry, Study Says

These days it seems as though both political parties are doing everything they can to disenfranchise one of the fastest-growing demographics in the country: Hispanics. While the GOP ratchets up anti-immigrant rhetoric and champions Arizona-style immigration legislation, the Obama administration rac ... More >>

A Hard, Compassionate Case for Immigration Reform

Sometimes, even conservatives make good points.

Are More Mexicans Becoming Conservative?

And do teachers discriminate against students with Hispanic first names?

State Rep. Rafael Anchia: Republicans Vulnerable as the Face of Texas Changes

Unfair Park dropped by the Democratic New Leaders Texas PAC meeting at The Kessler last night. The group is billed as a statewide network of Dems "nurturing and promoting the next generation of principled, capable Texas leaders" -- like, for example, the affable and polished state Rep. Rafael Anchia ... More >>

Last Night, a First Step Toward Solving, Or Not, the Problem With ICE's Secure Communities

​Tuesday night, the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council's Task Force on Secure Communities (hold on, gotta catch my breath after that pithy title) held a pilot meeting at the Dallas County Community College's Bill J. Priest Campus to discuss ICE's controversial fingerprint screeni ... More >>

A Better Life: L.A. on Ice

Tom Leppert Reviews Obama's Immigration Policy Speech Given in El Paso Tuesday

Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaPresident Obama in El Paso on Tuesday​No doubt you're well aware that President Barack Obama was in El Paso yesterday, where he said that "genuine, comprehensive reform" was the only way to repair a "broken immigration system." In his speech, posted in its e ... More >>

Again, Times Writes About Isenberg's Efforts to Help a Student Here Illegally Live the Dream

Photo by Mark GrahamRalph Isenberg​By now you're likely well aware of Ralph Isenberg's ongoing efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, after the the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad was sent to Bangladesh last year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials -- after Saad's pare ... More >>

Do Legal Mexican Immigrants Really Sympathize with Illegals?

Yahoo! Them Huddled Masses Sure are Good for Texas!

Mass deportation, strict border enforcement, amnesty. What will comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds take action--or if they don't?

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Mexican Macro-economics

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

When Operation Streamline Deters: One Immigrant's Story

Operation Streamline costs taxpayers millions, tramples on the Constitution, treats immigrants like cattle and doesn't work. So why are the feds so committed to it?

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Illegal Immigrants, Desperate To Find Work In The U.S., Risk Kidnapping, Rape and Murder From Those Smuggling Them Across the Border

We Know What Illegal Means. So What?

Ralph Isenberg DREAMs of a Day When Deported Saad Nabeel Can Return to Frisco

​For those unfamiliar with the story of Saad Nabeel, there's quite the extensive Wikipedia page -- but long story short, he's the Bangladeshi-born 19-year-old who, till recently, had been in the States since he was 3, when his folks came here seeking political asylum -- a request repeatedly denied ... More >>

Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Ronnie's Kids

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Cowboy Down: Murdered Southern Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz's Family Talk About His Life and Death

For Those Living in Ground Zero for Drug Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, the Illegal Immigration Crisis is Personal

Badlands

No Bull: This Spanish Cuss Word Fits Nearly Every Situation

Borderline Justice | Straight Poop | Loony Tuna | Swilly Reception | Zing

Bubba Patrol

The Minutemen are ready to patrol Texas' border. Are we ready for them?

Letters

Heat, No Light

Young Conservatives make a fuss with immigration protest

Up in Arms

Plus: Rave for a Rave, Barking up Wrong Tree

Open Season

Border authorities fear a return to the law of the Wild West as Texas homeowners take up guns against illegal Mexican immigrants

Walk the Walk

Can shoe leather and signs change immigration law?

Strange bedfellows

National union leaders do the math and switch their position on immigration

The kids aren't all right

The Americanized culture of undocumented immigrants finds the doors to higher education closed

Victims in the shadows

A Rowlett murder shines a light on the practices of notarios who victimize illegal immigrants desperate for a chance to remain in the United States

Proof of citizenship

The INS is asking the impossible of a Laotian refugee who believes he's an American

Children of the Storm

Hurricane Mitch left thousands homeless, jobless, and alone, forcing them to cross the border in search for new lives in America. And those were just the kids.

Plugging the hole

A bungling bureaucracy allowed murder suspect Maricela Martinez to escape to Mexico

Crime and no punishment

A legal loophole lets illegal immigrants get out of jail nearly free

Borderline case

An illegal immigrant mother battles against bureaucracy to stay near her ailing daughter