Hundreds of illegal immigrants were rounded up in May at the kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, and the two supervisors were arrested on criminal immigration charges.
A real victory will come with a well-patrolled border and a well-run immigration system that requires undocumented workers to come forward and be legalized.
A Superior Court judge dismissed a California lawsuit seeking to end a police policy that prohibits officers from initiating contact with people for the sole purpose of learning their immigration status.
The National Guard’s mission to help keep out illegal immigrants along with the border with Mexico is scheduled to end July 15, but an effort is intensifying for them to stay put.
Criminal prosecutions of immigrants by federal authorities surged to a record high in March, as immigration cases accounted for the majority of all new federal criminal cases brought nationwide that month.
Lawmakers voted to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for five years.