A member of the Colombian Medellin-based drug cartel who coordinated the kidnapping of an undercover federal agent in 2005 has been arrested, federal authorities said Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007

A Tampa Bay area congressman is introducing legislation to beef up security measures for the U.S. student visa program, despite the raft of reforms enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

December 5, 2007

The newest evidence revealed in the case against former University of South Florida student Ahmed Mohamed is positively frightening. ...more

November 27, 2007

Clark Elementary students' jaws dropped when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement helicopter approached to make a landing on the school's baseball field last week. ...more

November 21, 2007

A $1.2 billion plan by the Department of Homeland Security to buy a new kind of radiation-detection machine for the nation's borders has been put on hold again, a blow to one of the Bush administration's top security goals. ...more

November 20, 2007

Investigators used SunPass records and a Jamaican woman's memory for detail to file rape charges against an immigration agent who insisted he drove her only from one detention center to another. ...more

November 20, 2007

TAMPA - The Jamaican detainee had been in a federal facility for three months when she was put in the custody of Immigration Enforcement Agent Wilfredo Vazquez. ...more

November 19, 2007

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday he was abandoning a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, but said that the federal government had "lost control" of its borders and left states to deal with the consequences. ...more

November 15, 2007

Bernard Kerik, a protege of Rudy Giuliani who once led the nation's largest police department, pleaded not guilty Friday to a wide-ranging indictment charging him with "selling his office" and lying to cover up the scheme. ...more

November 10, 2007

Experts say Nora Sandigo's bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to stop deportation of illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children hasn't a prayer. Sandigo just nods. She has heard it all before. ...more

November 5, 2007