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Former Immigration Agent Indicted For Pay Theft
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities claim a former immigration agent stole more than half a million dollars in pay and benefits. The former assistant special agent in charge for Immigration and Customs...
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Sheriff’s Officials To Keep Screening Inmate’s Immigration Status
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County supervisors have voted to extend a program to have sheriff’s officials screen inmates’ immigration status. The supervisors approved the proposal Tuesday after...
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Drug-Hunting Feds Crack Egg Smuggling Plan In LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities say a Miami man has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport while trying to smuggle cocaine concealed inside phony Easter eggs. The Immigration and...
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Feds Return $160K To Widower Bilked In Canadian Lottery Scam
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials have returned $160,000 to an 87-year-old Los Angeles-area widower who was bilked in a Quebec-based telemarketing scam targeting elderly people. Immigration and...
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Sheriff Baca Questions Civil Rights Of Illegal Immigrants
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has questioned the civil rights of illegal immigrants in radio remarks that have riled immigrant advocates. Baca said in an interview on KCRW...
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Immigration Authorities Add 1,300 Beds For Southland Detainees
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigration authorities will add another 1,300 beds to detain suspected illegal immigrants in Southern California. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday announced an...
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7 Illegal Immigrant Students Get Themselves Arrested To Test President Obama
SAN BERNARDINO (AP) — Seven illegal immigrant students arrested in a Southern California street protest say they are now waiting to see if they will be deported in a test of the Obama administration’s...
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9 Indicted In Denim-Smuggling Scheme From China
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — Authorities say nine people have been indicted on charges of smuggling and money laundering tied to a denim-importing scheme that cost the government at least $2 million in tax...
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Mother, Daughter Accused Of Trying To Smuggle Cocaine Through LAX
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A 54-year-old woman and her 22-year-old daughter have been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggling more than 10 pounds of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport. The...
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ICE Arrests 206 LA-Area Illegal Immigrants In Nationwide Sweep
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — More than 200 illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area were arrested in a national immigration sweep, the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement said Monday. ICE had more than...
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160 Pounds Of Meth Seized From Drug Labs In Van Nuys, Pomona
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — More than 160 pounds of methamphetamine was seized from drug labs run out of homes in Van Nuys and Pomona after the arrest of a Mexican man suspected of working as a runner for a...
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Immigrant Mothers Make Tearful Pleas To Stay In U.S. With Kids
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Immigration officials Wednesday granted an extension to one mother, but ordered another mother out of the county. A 14-year-old boy made a tearful plea to stop his mother’s...
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Former ICE Agent Sentenced For Defrauding Government Out Of $500K
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for defrauding the government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal salary...
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ACLU Of SoCal Sues To Stop Immigration Holds On US Citizens
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrant advocates sued the federal government Wednesday alleging immigration agents are filing paperwork to keep arrestees in custody before investigating whether they’re in the...
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Man Freed On Bond After Daughter Talks To Pope Francis About Immigration Reform
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a 10-year-old California girl traveled to the Vatican to plead with Pope Francis for help as her father faced deportation, the man was released Friday on bond from immigration...
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Police: Internet Predator Arrested In OC In Targeting Female Teens
GARDEN GROVE (CBSLA.com) — Authorities arrested a Cypress man Thursday who they believe attempted to contact teenage girls on the Internet for sex and was in possession of child pornography, officials...
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Immigration Detention Center Expands In Adelanto
SANTA ANA (AP) — Immigration authorities are expanding a Southern California detention facility to get more bed space for women with criminal records, immigrants with medical needs, recently-arrived...
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Sex Offender Charged With Keeping Teenage Girl In Garage Was Free On...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a man charged with sex crimes against a 14-year-old Santa Clarita girl is a registered sex offender in deportation proceedings who was out on immigration bond....
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Feds To Share $20.5M In Seized Assets With Chinese In Smuggled Clothing Probe
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An investigation originally launched by the former U.S. Customs Service in 2000 has uncovered what is believed to be the largest commercial fraud scheme ever uncovered on the...
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ICE Detainee Dies After Collapsing While Playing Soccer
NORTH HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Vicente Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, on Wednesday became the third U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee to die while in custody at the Adelanto Detention Center...
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