Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Customs and Border Protection has purchased 10 drones since 2005 to hunt down illegal immigrants, ABC 10 News reports. The Predator drones helped track down nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants and nine tons of marijuana, ABC News reported, citing records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The local ACLU said drones pose…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents have abused illegal immigrants and systematically denied them the opportunity to contact the Mexican Consulate, according to a report by a pro-immigration reform group, The Arizona Daily Star reports. The report by the Kino Border Initiative says one in four illegal immigrants surveyed said they were abused in some…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Volunteers for a humanitarian group that provides clothing to illegal immigrants crossing the border in the winter were rescued by Border Patrol agents, KPBS reports. The rescue last week came as volunteers were climbing mountains in Arizona to provide warm clothes to the illegal immigrants when the trouble began, KPBS wrote. Their…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police in Georgia are prepared to start enforcing the state’s controversial “show-me-your-papers law” after a federal judge lifted an injunction on it, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The law allows police to check the immigration status of suspects. Anyone believed to be in the country illegally can be detained, the Journal-Constitution reported. Aimed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Inadequate medical care, poor food and overzealous guards was the catalyst for the deadly riot at a prison for illegal immigrants in Mississippi in May, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit, the Associated Press reports. Inmates in the privately-run Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez pledged to disobey orders until demands for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who refused to release an illegal immigrant because he was not considered a priority target faces suspension and potential termination, Fox News reports. “They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying to uphold U.S. law” Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, told…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Obama administration efforts to cut down on swelling number of deportation cases has been less than successful, the Washington Post reports. An internal review found that more deportation cases are cropping up at a quicker pace than the administration has time to handle. The idea is to close deportation cases of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are investigating human smuggling after a truck packed with illegal immigrants crashed in rural southern Texas, killing 17 and injuring nine, the Associated Press reports. Of the those killed, 11 were male and three female. At least two were children. They came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras,…
