U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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 >>

Isn't DACA Just a Ruse to Identify and Deport DREAM Act Students?

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 >>

GOP Party Platform Antagonizes the Sleeping Giant in Texas

Texas isn't really a red state anymore. It just doesn't know it yet. The Hispanic population nationwide grew from 35 million to 50 million over the last decade or so, and 20 percent of that growth was in Texas. Meanwhile, the white bloc that does all the electing around here is no longer a majority. ... 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 >>

A Guide to How Obama's New Immigration Policy Will Work, And a Word of Caution

President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer attempt to deport young undocumented immigrants brought here as children, signaling a compassionate shift in an immigration policy whose hallmark was aggressive enforcement and record-shattering ... More >>

When Arizona's Immigration Law is Upheld, the Floodgates of Hate Will Swing Open

The U.S. Supreme Court and President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience.

The Mother of Jakadrien Turner, the Oak Cliff Teen Deported to Colombia, is Suing the Feds

It was unusual when Jakadrien Turner's grades in high school began to falter after the death of her grandfather nearly two years ago. She was typically a good student and didn't look for trouble. But after her grandfather's death, she began acting out, according to legal documents, and in this perio ... More >>

Undocumented Immigrants Sue ICE Over its Use of Ankle Monitors in the Dallas Office

A group of undocumented immigrants is asking a federal judge to declare unconstitutional the use of GPS ankle monitors to track immigrants who pose no threat to society. The suit, filed by Arturo Rodriguez of the Isenberg Center for Immigration Equality, targets the ICE Dallas field office and BI I ... More >>

A Thousand Dallas Immigrant Families Broken By Deportation During Six Months in 2011

So often we think of undocumented immigrants as young, rootless men scaling border fences with plastic bags and gallon jugs of water slung over their shoulders. Truth is, people come here, set down roots and have kids. And when they get picked up by authorities, whether for a felony or for something ... More >>

How To Not Get Deported

So, you're an undocumented immigrant. Your great hope is to stick around, make a living and, some day, become naturalized. Unfortunately, our immigration laws are a tangled morass of inscrutability, insensible to the realities of a globalized world. You may have watched last week's Republican deba ... More >>

Dallas Deportation Orders Down, But Will Obama's Policy Shift Stick?

In Dallas and across the country, the astronomical number of deportation orders issued by immigration courts is at last beginning to fall. President Obama's new strategy focuses on intelligent enforcement and prosecutorial discretion. Translated: We'll show bad guys the door, but the undocumented st ... More >>

Dallas Federal Grand Jury Indicts Sam Hurd, Co-Conspirator For Cocaine Distribution

​Seems like only three weeks ago Sam Hurd was just another former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys who was on his road to journeyman status, which, in his case, ran through Soldier Field. Then it was revealed: Even before his acquisition by the Chicago Bears, the San Antonio native fancied him ... More >>

So How Is Prioritizing Undocumented Immigrant Deportations Going? Suckily.

​It's been nearly six months since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton issued a memo to his subordinates, which we'll translate from bureaucrat-speak for you: Look, we got scarce resources, so don't head out into the field looking to pop every Tomas, Diego and Enrique ... 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

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 >>

Super Bowl prostitution: 100,000 hookers didn't show, but America's latest political scam did.

When Local Government Officials Admit to Breaking the Law: The Latest from U.S. Attorney

​Moments ago, the U.S. Attorney's Office sent word in two back-to-back e-mails that two former government employees -- one, an agent in the Dallas FBI office; the other, a city of Garland risk management adjuster -- have copped to breaking the law. Let's begin with the FBI agent.Her name is Ann Co ... More >>

When Operation Streamline Deters: One Immigrant's Story

Before Ralph Eisenberg Files Suit Taking on Feds, HuffPo's Q&A with Deported Saad Nabeel

​Two months back we got to discussing the case of Saad Nabeel, who came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 3, graduated from Frisco's Liberty High School, received an electrical engineering scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington -- only to find himself deported by the U.S. gover ... More >>

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted- no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

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We Know What Illegal Means. So What?

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

Porsches, Drugs and Money: A Look Into ICE Investigation of Drug-Running Used Car Lot

​U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Dallas County constables had been watching Star Auto Sales, a North Dallas used car dealer, for nearly 10 months before they made their move on February 18; bearing a search warrant, officers from both agencies flipped through the dealership's ... More >>

ICE Says More Than 100 Were Rounded Up During Five-Day Multi-Agency Anti-Gang Sweep

​This just in from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The agency, along with the Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit and an alphabet's soup worth of local law enforcement agencies, spent the last five days sweeping Dallas-Fort Worth for gang members and their a ... More >>

Picking Up the Mexican Man's Burden.

Woodrow Wilson English Teacher Arrested, Charged For Possessing Child Pornography

​The U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word that 44-year-old Jon Leslie Lyons, who has been teaching English at Woodrow Wilson High School for three years, was arrested and charged yesterday with possessing child pornography, some involving children under the age of 5. According to an affidavit fil ... More >>

Arlington PD Says It Doesn't Want to Be in the Business of Enforcing Immigration Laws

CopShop.com​While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program -- which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations --  top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead ... More >>

Three Women, Trafficked to Dallas, Sue Their Former Captor from Coppell

In October 2006, Sung Bum Chang of Coppell was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor -- meaning, he was a human trafficker and a slave master. So too was his wife, Hyang Kyung Chang, who plead ... More >>

Out of ICE Custody, a Plano Imam Must Now Leave the Country

An Over-Wide Net

Without Explanation, ICE Wants to Deport a Well-Regarded Local Imam

Waiting to Find Out Why Imam's on ICE

Indefinite Detention? That'll Set Those Damned Kids Straight.

After Being Drugged and Dragged to DFW, A Stay of Execution

One Bad Apple, So, Sure, Let's Chop Down the Entire Orchard

Not Really a Hispanic Heritage Month Feel-Good Story

Not So Swift

Swift Justice? Not Bloody Likely.

It's No Fun Being an "Illegal Alien"

Kicking Down the Door at the "House of Death"

"They Treat Us Like We're Nothing"

Down, Set, Hutto: ACLU To File Suits Against Immigration Facility in Taylor

Domingo Garcia Leading March on Immigration Enforcement HQ Today. Sounds Like Fun.

Isenberg, Back from China, Now Taking on "Child Prisons"

Who Brought the Minutemen to Garland? A Former City Council Member, Looks Like.

Fake I.D.: Good for Business, Bad for Nation

Simple minds

ICE, ICE, baby

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