Immigration agents descend on 7-Eleven stores in 17 states
Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said.
Watchdog: US has no way to measure border wall effectiveness
The United States does not have a way to measure how well fencing works to deter illegal crossings from Mexico, according to a report released Thursday by Congress’ main watchdog as President Donald Trump renewed his pledge to build “a great wall” on the border.
Bill: Let police ask about immigration status
The Mississippi Senate voted 32-16 Thursday to approve a bill saying local governments and public colleges can’t stop their employees from asking whether a person has entered the U.S. illegally, and can’t try to grant any special status to those who’ve entered illegally.
Texas town’s rental ban to get second hearing
A Dallas suburb’s long, expensive fight to ban illegal immigrants from renting homes will have perhaps its most important hearing before a largely conservative group of judges with the power to influence the national immigration debate.
FBI arrests Sumrall in child porn case
Noel Everett Sumrall, 66, was arrested Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sumrall had been out on bond, which had been set at $7,500, before being indicted in federal court on Aug. 30 on child pornography charges.
AP: Border Patrol halts Mexico flights
The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona’s deserts, a money-saving move that ends a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.
Settlement in suit over illegal workers
Federal court records show a Mississippi company that was the target of the largest U.S. workplace raid on illegal immigrants has settled a discrimination lawsuit by four black women who claimed the company gave preferential treatment to Latinos.
Illegal immigrant charged with sexual battery in Lowndes County
A 26-year-old illegal immigrant has been charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old female relative at his Lowndes County residence.