By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed authorities in Arizona have busted a special agent with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on charges that she illegally accessed, stole and transferred sensitive U.S. government documents to family members and associates with strong ties to drug trafficking organizations south of the border, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Jovana Samaniego…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. who was shot in February in an ambush in Mexico along with agent Jaime Zapata is moving about, but has yet to return to work, said the agency spokesman Brian P. Hale. Zapata did not survive the shooting. Hale said Avila is in daily…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds are investigating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Miami for allegedly taking more than $100,000 in bribes from a confidential government informant, the Sun-Sentinel reported. The bribes were allegedly paid to ICE agent Juan Martinez for “temporary parole” immigration status for Colombians and others. The status allowed them…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may have been a minor oversight the time — but the misstep could have prevented the rape of an 8-year-old girl. Tom Jackman of the Washington Post reports that immigration authorities failed to enter in a national data base the fingerprints of Salvador Portillo-Saravia before they deported him to El…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors are hoping on Monday to land the toughest sentence in the history of federal corruption cases when former ICE official Constantine Peter Kallas appears in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The former Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was found guilty of three dozen corruption…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com “Ooops” and “sorry” are the two things that come to mind in this case. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. of Buffalo and Lev J. Kubiak, head of the Homeland Security Investigations in that city, apologized to a businessman whose home was mistakenly raided earlier this month by ICE agents, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Who leaked the info on President Obama’s aunt’s immigration status days before the 2008 election campaign? Well, according to the website Talking Points Memo, the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility still wants to know. The Office of Professional Responsibility still has an “ongoing law enforcement investigation”, Freedom of Information…
