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The jury in the month-long trial of the undocumented Mexican immigrant accused of murdering San Francisco resident Kate Steinle on a city pier two years ago has begun its deliberations. San Francisco prosecutors say that 45-year old Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a homeless man who had been deported multiple times, intentionally fired the single shot that killed the 32-year old Steinle as she was walking arm-in-arm with her father on July 1, 2015.
A federal court judge in California on Monday blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump to deny some federal grants to so-called sanctuary cities, undermining the administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. The judge, who blocked the order provisionally in April, issued a permanent injunction in the suit brought by the city and county of San Francisco and Santa Clara County, which said the order was unconstitutional.
A federal judge has permanently blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with US immigration authorities. US District Court Judge William Orrick issued the ruling on Monday in lawsuits brought by two California counties, San Francisco and Santa Clara.
Julio Calderon, 28, upper right, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, speaks in favor of renewing Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti now living in the United States, during a news conference Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, in Miami. The Trump administration announced Monday it will end immigration protections for about 59,000 Haitians living in the United States in May 2019, concluding that conditions on the ground in the poverty-stricken Caribbean country have improved enough since a massive earthquake in 2010 for residents to return.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the world is facing instability and conflict in part because illegal immigration spreads terrorism in a speech Monday that comes as her country is accused of violently pushing out hundreds of thousands of unwanted Rohingya Muslims. Suu Kyi did not directly mention the refugee exodus as she welcomed European and Asian foreign ministers to Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the world is facing instability and conflict in part because illegal immigration spreads terrorism in a speech that comes as her country is accused of violently pushing out hundreds of thousands of unwanted Rohingya Muslims. Suu Kyi did not directly mention the refugee exodus in her speech to welcome European and Asian foreign ministers in Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar.
Border Patrol agents in East County San Diego arrested a man on Tuesday morning who approached the Interstate 8 checkpoint, made a U-turn, then drove into oncoming traffic on I-8. After turning around again, the driver fled through the I-8 checkpoint at a high rate of speed.
Ramon Ruiz Ortiz, 36, of Moreno Valley, is now living with his brothers in Ensenada, Mexico on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 after being deported. Margarita Ruiz, 66, of Moreno Valley, hugs her son Ramon Ruiz Ortiz, 36, while visiting him in Ensenada, Mexico, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017.
POLICE ON the resort island of Phuket have arrested 2,415 illegal immigrants during a one-year period, but failed to hand over the majority of them to immigration police for deportation. The finding has led to deputy national police commissioner Pol General Srivara Rangsibharamanakul issuing an urgent order for police to apprehend illegal immigrants who are still at large.
A federal grand jury in Raleigh indicted a Guatemala native found in Wayne County on charges of false representation of a Social Security account number and aggravated identity theft. Maria Asuncion Lucas-Mendez, 31, would face up to seven years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine and a term of supervised release following imprisonment if convicted on the charge.
Nearly two dozen House Republicans on Thursday pressed Speaker Paul Ryan to act quickly on legislation that would protect about 800,000 illegal aliens brought to the United States as children. The lawmakers said efforts to grant such deportation protection would easily pass in the House, with dozens in the GOP set to join Democrats in backing such a bill.
Hundreds attended annual Border Mass celebrated Saturday on a platform over the Rio Grande between Downtown El Paso and JuA rez. Matachines line the levee as the procession makes its way to the altar during the border mass Saturday near the Chihuahuita neighborhood in downtown El Paso.
The U.S. government released from custody a 10-year-old Mexican girl with cerebral palsy on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union said, 10 days after the ambulance taking her to surgery in Texas was stopped at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. Rosa Maria Hernandez has lived in the United States illegally since her family brought over the border to Texas when she was 3 months old.
When I first learned of the proposal to build a wall on the southern border of the United States, it seemed an insult to our Mexican neighbors, and a costly idea as well. Later on, news of the death of 10 persons, and the near-suffocation of others - all of whom were stuffed into the back of a truck in an attempt to enter the United States - created a very painful image.
A Chinese real estate billionaire may be trying to hide behind U.S. immigration law to avoid prosecution for sex crimes. The case of Guo Wengui , a rogue Chinese billionaire seeking asylum, may prove a litmus test for the Trump administration's reform of immigration policy.
The government made the "wrong argument" in the case of a pregnant illegal immigrant who sought an abortion and should have stressed the teen had no constitutional right to the procedure, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton said Tuesday. In remarks on " The Joe Pags Show " on Newsmax TV , Paxton said instead the Department of Justice argued it did not want to facilitate an abortion, but a federal appeals panel decided the government could not block the 17-year-old from having it done.
A driver pulled over on Interstate 24 last Wednesday for a traffic violation says he was paid to deliver more than a dozen illegal immigrants, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. THP says the driver was acting "extremely nervous" during the traffic stop and admitted he was driving the 16 immigrants from Houston, Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia.
Chebukati said Sunday that the election had gone well, and h... . Opposition leader Raila Odinga greets his supporters after attending a church service in the slum of Kawangware in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017.
Q:My brother is having an affair with a woman from the Netherlands. Can we get immigration to deny her entry? My brother is married with three children.
Apple Inc, General Motors Co , Best Buy Co Inc and others have joined a coalition of top companies lobbying the U.S. Congress for young, illegal immigrants to have a path to permanent residency, the group said on Thursday. The Coalition for the American Dream counts more than 60 businesses and organizations as members, according to a Thursday press release announcing the group's launch.