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Virginia Sens. Mark Warner (D) and Tim Kaine (D) have questioned the Trump administration following an explosive report in The Associated Press detailing abuse allegations against a detention facility in their state. The AP on Friday reported that Kaine and Warner sent inquiries about the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement’s director. Warner and Kaine asked if employees who take part in abusing the young migrants receive disciplinary action and inquired about prior accusations, the report said. The AP on Thursday reported that a lawsuit filed against the facility includes abuse allegations from young Latino...

American voters are still divided over the top priority in dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. While 43 percent say it’s securing the border, almost as many -- 41 percent -- think it’s more important to deal with illegal immigrants already in the country, according to a Fox News poll released Monday. Views today are virtually unchanged from two years ago. At that time, 43 percent of voters said secure the border first, while 42 percent said focus on undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S. (March 2011). Despite illegal immigration being a hot topic in Washington, it is not...

I'm Facebook friends with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. he just made the following post a min ago ... Just left my speaking event in Kansas because of a bomb threat, evacuating convention center now. No other details yet.

[The lawsuit against SB1070 has nothing to do with keeping immigration policy in federal hands.] The Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, likely to be filed next week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a South American interviewer last week that the Obama administration opposes the law because “the federal government should be determining immigration policy.” The idea that the administration seeks to uphold federal sovereignty in matters pertaining to immigration is hard to swallow. U.S. law prohibits public universities from providing in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrant students, yet ten states currently allow undocumented...

A little-known federal law has escaped the headlines. With the debate focused on Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, our elected leaders in Washington have turned a blind eye to the federal laws over which they exercise control. Long before Arizona passed its law that will soon authorize law enforcement to demand immigration papers from anyone upon “reasonable suspicion” of being an illegal alien, the federal government passed a similar law. Indeed, tucked away in Title 8 of the U.S. Code is a provision that expressly authorizes federal immigration officers, without a warrant, “to interrogate any alien or person believed to...

Dozens of protestors and counter protestors showed up in front of Tucson’s Mexican Consulate as a Mexican flag was burned in a heated debate that saw tempers flare. Border Guardians, a group formed along the Arizona border to speak out against the estimated thousands of illegal immigrants that enter the U.S. every day through the Tucson sector, led the protest. “Flags are symbols of government, not of people," shouted Roy Warden, as a member of his group, Border Guardians, set foot to the Mexican Flag. One woman speaking out against the Border Guardians yelled, “This is not a gesture of...

PHOENIX A 39-year-old Iranian man has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle other Iranians into the United States through Mexico. The U-S Attorney's Office in Phoenix says Zeayadali Malhamdary was arrested Thursday in the parking lot of a Mesa tailoring business he owns. The F-B-I began investigating Malhamdary after a source told immigration officials that Malhamdary had sought help getting false Mexican visas so he could bring Iranians into Mexico. The feds say he then intended to bring them across the border into Arizona. During a court appearance today, an innocent plea was entered on Malhamrary's behalf. Malhamdary is...

<p>Islamic radicals are being trained at terrorist camps in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a conspiracy to send hundreds of operatives to "sleeper cells" in the United States, according to U.S. and foreign officials.</p> <p>The intelligence and law-enforcement officials say dozens of Islamic extremists have already been routed through Europe to Muslim communities in the United States, based on secret intelligence data and information from terrorists and others detained by U.S. authorities.</p>

September 29, 2002 BY , TIMES STAFF WRITER TIMES PHOTOGRAPHS BY DON BARTLETTI The boy does not understand. His mother is not talking to him. She will not even look at him. Enrique has no hint of what she is going to do. Lourdes knows. She understands, as only a mother can, the terror she is about to inflict, the ache Enrique will feel and finally the emptiness. What will become of him? Already he will not let anyone else feed or bathe him. He loves her deeply, as only a son can. With Lourdes, he is a chatterbox. "Mira,...