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Parties may see immigration as no-win
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
They journeyed 24 hours from Oxnard to Denver and then 24 hours back, driving through the night in three large vans. They demonstrated, chatted up delegates and politicked for change. But the fight for immigration reform that brought 47 immigrants and advocates from Oxnard to the Democratic National Convention didn't generate more than a heartbeat or two of attention from podium speakers, including presidential nominee Barack Obama. Full story »
Buoys considered for border canal
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
The agency that is lining a border waterway with concrete agreed Tuesday to consider adding ladders and buoys to prevent migrants from drowning when they cross illegally from Mexico into Southern California. Full story »
Illegal immigrants can 'self-deport'
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Wanted: Illegal immigrants with clean records who have ignored court orders to leave the country. Immigration officials are standing by to help you leave the country. No jail. No joke. Full story »
Protesters continue fight at church over immigrant
Monday, July 28, 2008
A group of anti-illegal immigration protesters stood outside a Simi Valley church Sunday morning waving American flags, marking nearly a year of weekly demonstrations there. Full story »
Crackdown urged on illegal immigrants
Monday, July 14, 2008
Officials in this San Diego County city are trying to discourage illegal immigration by enacting ordinances that crack down on border-crossers and the residents who harbor them. Full story »
Immigrants wary of ads seeking human traffickers
Sunday, July 13, 2008
A new government ad campaign that encourages people to report human trafficking crimes is causing some immigrants to do a double take. Full story »
Employers reminded of immigration enforcement
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he feels the pain of employers pinched by the federal government's intensified efforts to control illegal immigration, but until Congress enacts broad immigration reforms, businesses shouldn't expect any changes in enforcement. Full story »
U.S. border sends mixed messages, cleric says
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Immigration policies are so neglected and broken it is as if two billboards sit at the U.S. and Mexico border, said the leader of the nation's largest Catholic archdiocese. Full story »
Immigrants flee in response to new law
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Parents are pulling students out of school. Construction workers are abandoning their jobs. Families are hastily moving out of apartments. Full story »
22 arrested in county in immigration operation
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Agents from the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 22 people in Ventura County this week as part of a regional operation aimed at criminals in the country illegally and people who have ignored deportation orders, authorities said Friday. Full story »
Four enter pleas in smuggling case
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Four Oxnard residents pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that they conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country by transporting them in secret compartments in pickup trucks and SUVs. Full story »
Six accused of smuggling immigrants
Friday, Feb. 22, 2008
Five Oxnard residents, including the father-and-son owners of an auto body shop, were arrested Thursday and accused of conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants across the border in elaborate, hidden compartments built into pickup trucks and SUVs. Full story »
Mexican president's immigration remarks draw legislators' praise
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008
Mexican President Felipe Calderon pulled off Wednesday what few American politicians are able to do: He found common ground on the issue of Mexican immigration in remarks that were praised by both Democrats and Republicans. Full story »
Kids caught in deportation quagmire
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007
Mirian Villalobos had plenty going for her. The 25-year-old had a dimpled son, a handsome husband, a new house, and a happy suspicion she was pregnant again. Full story »
Latinos in poll say life's difficult Legal, illegal seen as same in U.S.
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
Nearly two-thirds of the nation's Latinos say the battle over illegal immigration has made life more difficult for all Latinos, including those here legally, according to a national survey released Thursday.
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