More than two years after he was arrested - and after two courts have since ruled in his favor - the federal government has dropped its legal pursuit of Youssef Megahed. ...more

November 6, 2009

More than two years after he was arrested – and after two courts have since ruled in his favor – the federal government has dropped its legal pursuit of Youssef Megahed. ...more

November 5, 2009

Federal officials say they have arrested 117 immigrants in Florida accused of being fugitives or committing immigration law violations. ...more

February 4, 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

A federal inmate at the county jail claims staff deprived him of legal services and beat him when he made a formal complaint about it. ...more

November 11, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed. ...more

November 1, 2008

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

November 1, 2008

Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have been disproportionately rejected by judges whom the Bush administration chose using a conservative political litmus test, according to an analysis of Justice Department data. ...more

August 24, 2008

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles to stand trial in El Paso on immigration fraud charges. ...more

August 15, 2008

Teams assigned to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives have arrested nearly twice as many people this fiscal year as the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said Tuesday. ...more

December 6, 2007