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A former aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy. The former aide, Linda Sun, is accused of acting on behalf of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, to further their interests in the United States. Her husband, Chris Hu, was also arrested and charged with money laundering conspiracy, as well as conspiracy to commit bank fraud and misuse of means of identification. Sun was...

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Note: The following text is a quote: March 30, 2010 Eritrean man pleads guilty to alien smuggling WASHINGTON - Samuel Abrahaley Fessahazion, 23, an Eritrean national, has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle illegal aliens to the United States for private financial gain, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP). Fessahazion, aka "Sami," aka "Sammy," aka "Alex" and aka "Alex Williams" pleaded guilty on March 29, 2010, in Houston to one count of conspiracy and two counts of encouraging and inducing aliens to come to, enter or reside in the United...

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government is satisfied with the United States' promise to conduct a thorough investigation of the events surrounding the shooting death of a Mexican migrant allegedly by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, President Vicente Fox's spokesman said Friday. "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with the Mexican foreign secretary to guarantee that there will be an independent investigation and that they will take the appropriate actions," Ruben Aguilar said. "This seems to us to be an adequate attitude." On Thursday, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said that he and Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal had...

CHICAGO - A federal grand jury handed down indictments September 13, 2005 that were unsealed yesterday charging 12 defendants for their roles in marriage fraud and alien smuggling schemes in the Chicago and Rockford areas that allegedly recruited and offered U.S citizens up to $10,000 to marry Lithuanian nationals for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining immigration benefits. Today's indictments are the result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The defendants were charged in two multi-count indictments that were unsealed today and announced by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. According to...

EL CENTRO, Calif. - Fifty-five illegal immigrants from Mexico were found in a refrigerated truck with an internal temperature of only a few degrees above freezing, the U.S. Border Patrol said Tuesday. The migrants had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Ariz., Monday and had been in the truck only a half-hour or so when they were found, said Border Patrol Agent Amber Galloway. The men and women appeared to be in good health, Galloway said. They were being held at the Calexico, Calif., Border Patrol station where they will be processed and returned to Mexico with a warning. A...

Just a few weeks ago, high-level sources told a Washington newspaper that Chechen terrorists have entered the U.S. through our state.

In the popular Russian film "Brat 2," one of the heros is issued a U.S. visa under the pretense of attending a computer conference in Chicago. The film features a comical episode in which the shaved-headed gangster struggles to explain the theme of the conference to customs officials. Ira is no gangster, but the 24-year-old mother from a small town doesn't exactly fit the description of a computer specialist either. In fact, she has never worked with a computer before. But as far as she knew, she was guaranteed a place in a Russian delegation flying to San Francisco for...