Immigration
Illegal immigrants arrested in phony UPS van
NILAND, Calif. -- It was a special delivery indeed -- 13 suspected illegal immigrants from Mexico stuffed in a phony UPS van.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Census: Minorities surpass whites in U.S. births
WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Date: 05/16/2012 | Nation & World
Analysis: President takes big risk in election year
President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is an election-year boost to his liberal base that comes with some risks.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Nation & World
Duvall farm fined $1M for hiring illegal immigrants
SEATTLE -- A Washington state organic herb farm must pay $1 million for firing, then rehiring illegal immigrants following a federal audit.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
ACLU sues Border Patrol over traffic stops
SEATTLE -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being pulled over and questioned "without reasonable suspicion."
Date: 04/26/2012 | Northwest
Supreme Court could back Arizona immigration law
PHOENIX — The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Nation & World
Feds: Duvall farming operation rehired illegal immigrants
SEATTLE -- A Duvall-based herb farm that was forced to fire nearly 90 illegal immigrants because of a government audit rehired some of those workers, paid them cash and asked them to work at night because production began to drop, according to court documents filed Monday.
Date: 04/23/2012 | Northwest
Franklin jury pools asked about immigration views
PASCO -- During two recent Franklin County murder trials, potential jurors were asked whether they believe immigrants are causing problems in America.
Date: 04/22/2012 | Northwest
Duvall farm investigated for hiring illegal immigrants
SEATTLE -- Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a Washington state organic herb farm for hiring and harboring illegal immigrants.Prosecutors filed charges last week against Duvall-based HerbCo International, Inc., which commands several farms in the United States.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Northwest
Program uses fingerprint analysis to I.D. illegal immigrants in jail
SEATTLE -- A federal program that uses fingerprint analysis to identify illegal immigrants in county jails has been activated in Washington state and Montana ahead of the 2013 nationwide rollout, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Date: 04/04/2012 | Northwest
Obama rule would ease immigration for illegals
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is proposing to make it easier for illegal immigrants who are immediate family members of American citizens to apply for permanent residency, a move that could affect as many as 1 million of the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally here.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Employer gets criminal conviction for hiring illegal aliens
PHOENIX -- A contractor who pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants was sentenced to probation Thursday in the first case in the state in which authorities pursued criminal charges instead of just fines against an employer in an illegal hiring case.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Where Republican candidates stand on the issues
WASHINGTON — Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.They are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.___GINGRICH:
Date: 02/24/2012 | Nation & World
Man involved in Ore. teen's death to be deported
Associated PressSEATTLE -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say they are deporting a 27-year-old Mexican national who was involved in drug-fueled orgy that ended with the strangling death of a teenager in Oregon City five years ago.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Northwest
Obama-Arizona governor friction on display in tarmac tiff
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she meant no disrespect when she pointed a finger at President Barack Obama during an intense discussion on an airport tarmac. But the Republican governor says the Democratic president showed disrespect for her by abruptly ending their...
Date: 01/26/2012 | Nation & World
High court to consider states’ immigration crackdowns
WASHINGTON -- Federal judges have blocked strict new immigration laws adopted by conservative legislatures in a half-dozen states, including a ruling last week that said South Carolina may not set up a "street-level dragnet" to stop and arrest illegal immigrants.
Date: 12/30/2011 | Nation & World
Years in detention takes toll on immigrant family
TACOMA -- Many days, it seems Tara Ammons Cohen no longer knows what to make of her life.Once, she had a husband who lay beside her at night and two little boys who mostly followed her rules. She worked as a teacher's assistant and bus driver and had cash and friends.
Date: 12/26/2011 | Northwest
Federal judge deals Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio new setback over immigration
PHOENIX -- America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" has been dealt another setback to his immigration enforcement efforts by a federal judge's ruling that bars deputies from detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they're in the country illegally.
Date: 12/25/2011 | Nation & World
Mayor seeks to let illegal immigrants vote
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Already known as a refuge for people from other lands, New Haven is tightening its embrace of newcomers as its mayor seeks to extend voting rights to illegal immigrants and other noncitizens, a policy challenge that comes shortly after attacks on "sanctuary cities" by...
Date: 12/20/2011 | Nation & World
Illegal immigrant sentenced for fraud
YAKIMA -- An illegal immigrant from Yakima has been sentenced to 8 years in prison on federal fraud and immigration charges.
Date: 12/14/2011 | Northwest
Supreme Court may consider Arizona immigration case
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, already poised to decide one hot-button political issue during an election year, also may tackle the Obama administration's challenge to Arizona's law requiring its police to check the immigration status of people who are stopped.
Date: 12/11/2011 | Nation & World
GOP leaders in Alabama reconsider support for immigration law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants are having second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state's prized Honda and Mercedes...
Date: 12/09/2011 | Nation & World
Change immigration law, Ala. AG says
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama's attorney general has become the highest ranking Republican official to suggest throwing out parts of his state's tough new immigration law, as he recommended that lawmakers repeal some portions of the statute that have been put on hold by federal courts and clarify...
Date: 12/06/2011 | Nation & World
GOP candidates walk tightrope on immigration
AMHERST, N.H. -- The Republican presidential contenders are tying themselves in knots over immigration.
Date: 11/29/2011 | Nation & World
House votes to end country limits for worker visas
WASHINGTON -- The House voted Tuesday to end per-country caps on worker-based immigration visas, a move that should benefit skilled Indian and Chinese residents seeking to stay in the United States and the high-tech companies who hire them.
Date: 11/29/2011 | Nation & World
Rivals pound Gingrich on illegal immigration in latest GOP debate
WASHINGTON — Republicans had another spirited tussle over immigration and border policy in their latest presidential debate Tuesday, with new front-runner Newt Gingrich taking fire from rivals who accused him of being soft on illegal immigration.
Date: 11/22/2011 | Nation & World
Obama's education chief praises push to help children of illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he's encouraged that some states are allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges.
Date: 11/07/2011 | Nation & World
State inmates lend a hand on bumper crop of apples
WASHINGTON -- Even after deploying 105 prison inmates this week to help pick apples, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire says growers still need from 3,000 to 4,000 workers to help harvest before the season's first major freeze.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Business
Alabama battle with illegal aliens recalls state's civil rights past
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.
Date: 10/30/2011 | Nation & World
Musical premieres in Everett
'Take Me America' tackles immigrants' stories
Date: 10/28/2011 | Entertainment
Deportations drop in Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE -- If deportations have declined in the Pacific Northwest, immigration attorney Betsy Tao hasn't noticed.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Northwest
Court blocks Alabama from checking student immigration status
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In a blow to Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law, a federal appeals court sided with the Obama administration Friday when it blocked public schools from checking the immigration status of students.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Nation & World
Alabama Hispanics leave work to protest immigration law
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — At least a half-dozen poultry plants shut down or scaled back operations Wednesday and many other businesses closed as Hispanics in Alabama skipped work to protest the state's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Nation & World
Town hall topic: Latino issues
EVERETT -- A town-hall-style meeting Saturday aims to explore social and economic issues facing Latinos in north Puget Sound.
Date: 10/03/2011 | Local News
Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Date: 10/01/2011 | Nation & World
Judge upholds strict immigration law
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge refused Wednesday to block key parts of a closely watched Alabama law that is considered the strictest state effort to clamp down on illegal immigration, including a measure that requires immigration checks of public school students.
Date: 09/29/2011 | Nation & World
GOP presidential debate focuses on economy
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in his third debate in six weeks, remained vague Thursday about how, precisely, he would translate his state's job-creation recipe into a national economic policy.
Date: 09/22/2011 | Nation & World
Congressional hearing focuses on border security
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Four months after President Barack Obama went to the other end of the Texas-Mexico border to tally achievements in border security and call for comprehensive immigration reform, a Republican congressman said the border remains unsafe and convened a hearing Monday in this...
Date: 09/20/2011 | Nation & World
Hispanics now a majority in federal prisons
SAN FRANCISCO -- More than half of all people sent to federal prison for committing felony crimes so far this year were Hispanic, a major demographic shift swollen by immigration offenses, according to a new government report released Tuesday.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. will review cases of aliens in deportation proceedings
LOS ANGELES -- The Obama administration said it will review the cases of 300,000 illegal immigrants currently in deportation proceedings to identify "low-priority" offenders -- including the elderly, crime victims and people who have lived in the U.S. since childhood -- with an eye toward allowing...
Date: 08/18/2011 | Nation & World
Task force eyes fingerprint sharing by authorities
LOS ANGELES -- About 200 people walked out of a meeting by a federal government task force Monday in protest over a program that gives immigration officials access to the fingerprints of arrestees.
Date: 08/16/2011 | Nation & World
More illegal immigrants deported for traffic offenses
WASHINGTON — Huge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped the Obama administration set a record last year for the number of criminal immigrants forced to leave the country, documents show.
Date: 07/22/2011 | Nation & World
Bill would abolish U.S. lottery for visas
WASHINGTON -- Every year millions of would-be immigrants take a gamble and submit their names for the U.S. government's annual visa lottery.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Nation & World
Minority babies now the majority in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- For the first time, more than half of the children under age 2 in the U.S. are minorities, part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and fast-growing younger ethnic populations that could reshape government policies.
Date: 06/23/2011 | Nation & World
Former Washington Post reporter says he's illegal immigrant
WASHINGTON — A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the Virginia Tech massacre for The Washington Post went public Wednesday with a secret he has been keeping for nearly two decades: He is an illegal immigrant.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
Some Washington border residents irked with federal agents
BELLINGHAM -- A few residents increasingly frustrated by federal agents driving through their property near the U.S.-Canada border chained, and in some cases, locked their gates Thursday to stop the vehicles from coming on their land.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Northwest
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