Federal officials are warning immigrants to avoid being ripped off by people offering to help them with immigration paperwork. Carlos Iturregui, chief of policy and strategy for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is in Tampa today to unveil an anti-fraud campaign offering people tips, phone numbers and Web site addresses so they will know how to identify legitimate service providers, said Ana Santiago, spokeswoman for the agency. ...more

October 17, 2008

Two teenagers must stay in jail while facing charges they murdered an 18-year-old high school student during a brawl outside an underage drinking party, a judge ruled. ...more

August 2, 2008

The nation's largest immigration law firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high-paying positions to immigrants. ...more

June 25, 2008

This is to the entire spectrum of employers, including Congress, who hire yard work, house work and nannies for their children, and these jobs are given to those who are illegal, guest workers, those on visas and green cards, who when they lose their jobs can return home. ...more

May 29, 2008

When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration's plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities: first up, remodeling the bathroom. ...more

May 12, 2008

Many industries wish to buy out their employees who are making a living wage, and to fill the many thousands of job buyouts with "slave labor" at half the living wage. ...more

February 21, 2008

BRADENTON - For as little as $125, authorities say, two Bradenton men gave undocumented immigrants what they could not get lawfully: driver's licenses, green cards and Social Security documents. The IDs, created using fake names and stolen Social Security numbers, meant the undocumented immigrants could get jobs and drive cars, privileges typically afforded only to people with legal documentation, investigators and prosecutors say. ...more

October 26, 2007