The Highlands County commissioners agreed Tuesday with the goal of keeping companies that do business with the county from using illegal workers. ...more

February 11, 2009

A bill passed Wednesday would make human smuggling a third degree felony with a five-year maximum prison sentence. ...more

February 4, 2009

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 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

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

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