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"Right now we are dealing with a massive influx of illegal aliens across our southwest border. In April, we saw triple the number from last April. But we’re not going to stand for this. We are not going to let this country be invaded. We will not be stampeded. We will not capitulate to lawlessness," Sessions told attendees at the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies spring conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. If you cross this border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It’s that simple. If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you," Sessions said....

Rise in kidnappings prompts more who cross regularly to seek training Security training companies in Texas and elsewhere, bolstered by an alarming increase in kidnappings and violence in Mexico, are finding a new niche in clientele: Americans and Mexicans living, visiting and working across the border. “Mexico has been very good for business lately,” said Dan Johnson, who holds a senior position for consulting and training with ASI Group, a Houston-based private intelligence and global risk-management company. Mexico is often seen as the kidnap capital of the world, with the State Department reporting in an advisory for travelers that dozens...

A new and more nuanced national report about fertility shows a significantly higher share of babies are born to immigrants in California than in any other state, even as a lower-than-average share of the state's births are to poor women and women on welfare. Nationally, the U.S. Census report shows that more American women are skipping motherhood or are waiting longer to have children, a trend already evident in California, where birthrates to women in their 40s have tripled the past two decades. "Women are delaying their childbearing until they complete their educations," said Jane Lawler Dye, a family demographer...

An immigrant who is in the United States legally does not have to be deported if convicted of having sex with a minor, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the crime that Alberto Quintero-Salazar admitted in 1998, illegal intercourse between an adult over 21 and a youth under 16, was not the type of "vile, base or depraved" conduct that subjects a lawful U.S. resident to deportation. Quintero entered the United States from Mexico in 1990, became a legal permanent resident in 1994, and runs...

The recent enforcement action carried out by the Boston office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose agents swooped through several area towns to arrest 36 members of the notoriously violent street gang MS-13, has touched off a storm of protest among local immigrant advocacy groups. These groups have berated local police for cooperating with ICE, and launched "training sessions" across the state to discourage immigrants from cooperating with law enforcement. "We understand trying to remove violent people, but in doing so you end up terrorizing entire communities," said the director of Centro Presente, a Cambridge non-profit. Yet judging...

Hi All. What a trip it was! I dropped everything to participate in this historic caravan. I logged 6,930 miles. Now that I've got things normalized a bit, let me start out with a THANK YOU to Jim Robinson for his sincere interest in restoring America to her greatness! Thanks to Doug from Upland, La Enchiladita, JustPiper, Rondog and so many others for the enthusiastic online support and prayers and to Eeevil Conservative and NewRomeTacitus for showing up at rallies. Apologies if I've overlooked someone, it was a flurry of energy, people and names at times so please remind me....

In a surprising trend that's just come to light, more than half of Chinese immigrant mothers surveyed in New York are sending their babies back to China, a new study reveals. Facing substantial debt and six-day workweeks, the majority of mothers - many of them illegal aliens - said the lack of affordable child care in the city forced them to send their babies to relatives in China for the children's early years. Business cards printed in Chinese can be found littered around the streets of Chinatown offering to courier babies to China for about $1,000, the New York Sun...

SPRINGDALE - A Springdale man is behind bars because police say he was providing dental services without medical certification. Springdale police arrested Jose Duarte, 29, on Wednesday in connection with an illegal dentist operation they say he was running out of his Springdale home on North Pleasant Street. "He had a considerable volume of equipment, some of it specialized and he had set up shop in his home, in the garage he had a lab," Officer Brian Simmons said. Investigators say Duarte used a bedroom in the house as a make-shift patient room. "He had a considerable number of patients...