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As Americans prepare to ring in the New Year, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a series of arrests ...

DISGRACED Manhattan attorney Robert Porges built the largest political asylum practice in the United States because his clients had nowhere else to turn literally. DISGRACED Manhattan attorney Robert ...

A dual Canadian-American citizen was extradited to New York on federal charges tied to a human smuggling operation that prosecutors say led to the deaths of a family of four, including two young ...

WATERVLIET, N.Y. (WRGB) — Police in Watervliet are investigating a stabbing.It happened Thursday evening near 5th Avenue and 19th Street.Details are limited at Mother demands justice after son ...

Aryan Deshwal, a 21-year-old citizen of India, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and five counts of alien smuggling, according to an announcement by Acting United States Attorney ...

A New York woman is facing federal charges for what prosecutors describe as an ongoing role in an international human-smuggling operation that moved migrants, primarily from India, across the ...

The ring of alleged smugglers offered Cuban nationals a tantalizing offer: legal U.S. residency by claiming European citizenship. Federal investigators say they raked in $18 million over a four-year ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, who is supposed to be protected from deportation, was detained by the San Diego Border Patrol. Jesus Arreola-Robles, 22, of ...

ALBANY — A Mexican citizen, Jose Rodriguez Barajas, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and three counts of alien smuggling, Acting United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Chief ...

Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside a Texas home. Authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and ...