It's been said many times in letters to the editor and radio call-in shows: The U.S. government should round up all illegal immigrants and send them home. ...more

September 6, 2008

Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers assigned to the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico are bunched up near the California coast. And some critics see politics at play. ...more

August 31, 2008

A series of rapes in the Tampa Bay area that has been blamed on three Mexican nationals set off a battle over the way law enforcement handles illegal immigrants, with a congresswoman and the Hillsborough County sheriff trading barbs and some local residents arguing that the immigrant crime problem had gotten out of hand. ...more

August 29, 2008

Two illegal immigrants from Mexico have pleaded guilty to hostage-taking after demanding pay and refusing to release immigrants they had driven from Arizona to Florida. ...more

August 29, 2008

Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi long have grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and the immigrants have been starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. ...more

August 28, 2008

Though she bungled the delivery, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite was right Monday to call for a federal investigation of how two illegal immigrants with arrest records were free to allegedly carry out a string of violent robberies and rapes. ...more

August 26, 2008

Politically motivated and naive is how Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee described a congresswoman's call for a federal investigation after last week's arrest of a Mexican national in rape cases. ...more

August 25, 2008

Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors. ...more

August 22, 2008

When federal immigration agents raided the kosher meatpacking plant here in May and rounded up 389 illegal immigrants, they found more than 20 underage workers, some as young as 13. ...more

July 27, 2008

A local civic activist will host a prayer vigil Sunday at the Avon Park Community Center to commemorate the second anniversary of a vote on a controversial ordinance that would have denied business licenses from the city to anyone that "aid and abets" illegal immigrants anywhere in the country. ...more

July 17, 2008