Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn some agents from Phoenix just as local police prepare to enforce Arizona’s new immigration law, The Associated Press reports. The federal agents were responsible for identifying and deporting illegal immigrants. To round up immigrants in other states, ICE began reassigning members of the Phoenix…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former federal immigration intelligence director was sentenced to 20 months in prison Friday after getting four subordinates to fraudulently claim more than $500,000 in false expense and pay claims, Reuters reports. James M. Woosley, 48, the former acting director of the intelligence office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Unable to discern who is telling the truth, Orange County prosecutors won’t seek criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot the wrong drug suspect, The Orange County Register reports. Prosecutors said they could not confirm Daniel Noriega’s story that claims an ICE agent shot at him without provocation….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A father, son and unidentified minor are in custody on charges they chased down a U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement special agent and shot him in southern Texas last week. The reason? According to the son, the trio chased agent Kelton Harrison through an isolated highway before opening fire and wounding him because…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police have detained three people for questioning in the shooting of a federal immigration agent in South Texas, the Associated Press reports. It’s unclear if the trio was involved in the non-fatal shooting of Kelton Harrison, an agent for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. federal immigration agent who passed on classified information to families with ties to Mexican drug cartels is to serve 30 months in prison, Reuters reports. Jovana Deas was sentenced Friday following accusations that she illegally obtained and disseminated classified documents as a special agent for the U.S. Immigration and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hispanics in Arizona protested outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, expressing concern that they’ll be subjected to racial profiling following Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Bloomberg reports. While the court struck down three provisions of the Arizona immigration law, the justices left intact the requirement that local police check the immigration…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed agents arrested 190 people in a month-long, nationwide crackdown on child pornography, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Friday. Additionally, authorities said they rescued 18 victims. Operation Orion was carried out through the month of May by agents from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents during a month-long. The operation…
