The U.S. Border Patrol on Monday ordered an investigation of allegations by agents in Southern California that they were given arrest quotas and threatened with punishment if they failed to meet them. ...more

February 2, 2009

Today I received a letter from someone who calls herself Abbie. I believe this is the second letter I've gotten from the mysterious Abbie. I suppose Abbie was upset about something I wrote to the Editor. At any rate, Abbie didn't bother to give me her return address; perhaps she had not the courage to do so. Turning to the phone directory I could find no such person listed. As someone said long ago, "I don't believe there is such a person." ...more

January 11, 2009

A five-day effort by law enforcement to target fugitive aliens has resulted in 110 arrests, including 11 in Tampa. The operation was organized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and was aimed at illegal immigrants who ignored orders to leave the country. Of the 110 arrested, 81 fell under that category; the remaining 29 had other immigration violations. ...more

December 23, 2008

Re: Kali Kingsley's letter in the Nov. 6 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

November 9, 2008

The U.S. government has arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants - nearly 350,000 - in the past year, authorities say. It has also naturalized a record number of new Americans in the same time, more than 1 million. ...more

November 7, 2008

In its final weeks, the Bush administration will revive a stalled crackdown on U.S. companies that hire illegal immigrants, issuing a new regulation and asking a federal judge to lift a ban on the measure. If the court agrees, the government could begin mailing notices to 140,000 employers regarding suspect Social Security numbers used by an estimated 8.7 million workers. ...more

October 24, 2008

in the dead of winter, in a rickety Dodge Spirit - Melissa Leo's character, Ray, says what the audience is thinking: "This is so ... stupid." ...more

October 24, 2008

The Highlands County commissioners agreed Tuesday to discuss using the federal E-Verify system to check the legal employment status of county employees and people working for companies with a county contract. ...more

October 20, 2008

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

Let's get something straight. The U.S. House of Representatives has been in Democratic hands for two years. The Democrats chair all committees; rule the roost. The latest Rasmussen tracking poll finds that 9 percent of the public thinks Congress is doing a good job. Fifty-two percent think Congress is doing a poor job. The leader of the House is Nancy Pelosi from San Francisco, the most politically strange city in America. Our congressman Tim Mahoney is part of that majority. That majority has failed to face the energy crisis, failed to act, improve health care, failed to act on Iraq and failed to fix Social Security. Their leadership is standing still. ...more

October 17, 2008