Undocumented immigrant found guilty in slaying of two deputies

A man in the country illegally charged with killing a pair of California deputies cheered upon receiving his guilty verdict and vowed to kill again as he was escorted from the courtroom. A Sacramento jury on Friday convicted Luis Bracamontes in the 2014 slayings of Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Danny Oliver and Placer sheriff's detective Michael Davis Jr. He was also found guilty of attempted murder, carjacking, weapons violations and other other crimes.

Rep. Will Hurd: Trump’s Wall ‘Least Effective’ for Border Security

Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd said the wall President Donald Trump wants to build across the southern U.S. border is the "least effective" way to approach border security, The Hill reported Saturday. "I've been very clear that building a wall from 'sea to shining sea' is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security," Hurd told The Hill.

Some of Congressa s Fiercest Immigration Critics Lead Groups That Celebrate Immigrants

Rep. Andy Harris thinks President Donald Trump's immigration framework goes too easy on undocumented immigrants. Appearing last week on a Baltimore radio program , he blasted Trump's proposed pathway to citizenship for Dreamers-undocumented immigrants who came to United States as children-as an "amnesty" plan.

Kenyon College professor nixes play on illegal immigration as ‘whiteness group’ takes shape on campus

An Ohio liberal arts college has been criticized for attacking "liberal education" after a faculty member canceled a production of a play she wrote that discussed illegal immigration over criticism from students and faculty. Wendy MacLeod's drama, "The Good Samaritan," centered on the experience of illegal immigrants from Guatemala working on an egg farm near the Kenyon College campus northeast of Columbus.

Chief of staff Kelly suggests undocumented immigrants who didn’t sign …

White House chief of staff John Kelly suggested Tuesday that some undocumented immigrants were "too afraid" or "too lazy" to sign up for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "There are 690,000 official DACA registrants and the President sent over what amounts to be two and a half times that number, to 1.8 million," he said on Capitol Hill after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, according to audio posted by The Washington Post .

Gaharu worth millions of ringgit seized, seven held

Kota Kinabalu: Forestry officials arrested seven people - a Cambodian and six illegal immigrants - for possession of protected gaharu wood worth millions of ringgit at a house in Keningau on Feb 2. Sabah Conservation Chief Datuk Sam Mannan said in a statement, Monday, that the seven were believed to have obtained the gaharu from protected forests, including parts of the Maliau Basin. "It is believed that the gaharu is worth millions of ringgit," he said, adding that the raid was made after a month-long surveillance.

IN Rep. Rips Weak Immigration Enforcement After Colts Player Killed by Twice-Deported IllegalCNS News

Indiana Republican Rep. Todd Rokita called for increased vigilance in protecting U.S. borders and enforcing immigration laws, in light of news that an illegal immigrant suspected of drunk driving killed two Hoosiers - including Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson - on Sunday.

Dreamers Need More Cities And States Ready To Defy Trump

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump sucker punched beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by reminding them that he considers them to be nothing more than "illegal immigrants," simultaneously declaring that American citizens are the ones worthy of being called "Dreamers." Trump's senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, crafted those toxic words and injected into the president's State of the Union address with intentions to pour gasoline over the heated debate between Democrats and Republicans concerning the fate of 800,000 aspiring Americans without legal status in the United States.

Diane Dimond: Don’t Let the Media Make up Your Mind on State of the Union

Following President Donald Trump's first State of the Union, I was left shaking my head at some journalists' analysis of what was said. Especially troublesome to see from my crime-and-justice perch was reporters tying Trump's mention of deadly MS-13 gang activity to all undocumented immigrants.

Democrats, ‘Dreamers’ and Demons

The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old "Dreamer" and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first ju-ped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight.

The Memo: Trump sticks to his guns on immigration agenda

Donald John Trump Stormy Daniels on statement denying Trump affair: 'I do not know where it came from' Five Takeaways from Trump's State of the Union Van Jones: Trump 'selling sweet-tasting candy with poison in it' MORE is going full-steam ahead with his immigration agenda, catering to his base with tough talk and trying to force a difficult choice on Democrats who have promised to protect immigrant communities. Trump's State of the Union speech was notable for its emphatic rhetoric on illegal immigration and for the significant time devoted to the topic.

These states benefit the most – and least – from immigration

In a 80-minute prime-time address, the Republican president sketched out an eventual path to citizenship for some 1.8 million undocumented immigrants, even as put a premium on border security and called for an end to family-based "chain" immigration for legal immigrants and the end of the "Visa lottery." In a new study , the economics and personal finance site WalletHub ran down the economic impact that immigrants have in all 50 states, providing a useful barometer on how new entrants to the country contribute to states' economies.

State of the Union | Good news for thousands of Indians as Donald…

SOTU Reuters US President Donald Trump applauds during his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. US President Donald Trump today urged the Congress to pass a legislation that promotes merit- based immigration, a move that would benefit hundreds of thousands of Indian professionals.

Mexican pleads guilty in human smuggling by Texas soldiers

A Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally has pleaded guilty to helping other immigrants be smuggled by American soldiers through a border checkpoint in Texas. Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Victoriano Zamora-Jasso pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented immigrants and illegal re-entry after deportation.

Crime and sanctuary movement are the focus in Florida

In a campaign video ad produced for Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran , an "illegal immigrant" wearing a hoodie is depicted shooting a young, red-haired woman who is walking through a suburban neighborhood as she smiles and texts on her phone. In a voice-over, Corcoran says, "This could have happened to any family, anywhere," and added, "Incredibly, some Tallahassee politicians want to make Florida a sanctuary state."