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The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier to deport illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a crime. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a 5-3 conservative majority that ruled against a Mexican citizen who entered the U.S. illegally and has lived in the country for 25 years. The man, Clemente Avelino Pereida, had been charged in Nebraska with using a fraudulent Social Security card to get a job and convicted under a state law against criminal impersonation. Illegal immigrants with criminal convictions who are facing deportation can ask the attorney general to allow them to remain in...

<p>DONALD JOHN TRUMP Coalition forms to back Trump rollback of major environmental law Canadian CEO blasts Trump over downed plane in Iran: 'I am livid' Business groups worry they won't see a Phase 2 Trump-China trade deal MORE plans to divert $7.2 billion from the Pentagon to go toward border wall construction this year, an amount five times greater than what Congress authorized in the budget, the Washington Post reported.</p>

Criminal prosecutions of immigrants by U.S. authorities surged to a record high in March, according to a report published by a nonpartisan research group. Immigration cases accounted for the majority -- 57 percent -- of all new federal criminal cases brought nationwide that month, the report said. Immigration cases also made up more than half of new federal prosecutions in February, reflecting a major emphasis on immigration by the Bush administration and a policy shift to expand the use of criminal, rather than civil, charges in its efforts to curb illegal immigration. In March...narcotics cases, the next-largest category, were 13...

Danbury - Lawyers representing a group of day laborers swept up in an immigration raid last year...filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Danbury and federal officials. The suit alleges city police illegally conducted an undercover raid with federal ICE agents at Kennedy Park, arresting the men who have become known as the Danbury 11. City police had no authority to enforce federal immigration law and relied on racial profiling rather than probable cause to randomly arrest immigrants at the downtown park early on Sept. 19, 2006, said Geri Greenspan, one of a group of Yale Law School professors and...

A Maryland lawmaker is seeking to remove the judge who dismissed a Montgomery County case because of delays in securing an interpreter for the trial of a Liberian immigrant accused of raping and repeatedly molesting a 7-year-old girl. "We have created an attitude that no matter how important and grievous a crime is, that a technicality takes precedence over the rights of the victim," said Delegate Patrick L. McDonough, Baltimore County Republican. "So any time a defendant comes into court and has a language problem, there's a good chance they could have their case dismissed." Circuit Court Judge Katherine D....

Idaho to screen state employees, make sure they're legal BYLINE: By ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: BOISE Idaho Idaho will begin using a new high-tech method to make sure state employees are eligible to work in the United States. Gov. Jim Risch signed an executive order Wednesday requiring that all state agencies begin screening potential new employees through a federal database system to verify that they can legally work in the country. Risch said he hopes local governments and private employers will follow the state's lead. While it's the federal government's job to secure the country's borders, states...