Jun 24th, 2009
An immigrant couple from Los Angeles was arrested by ICE agents in Oregon last week for transporting newly-arrived undocumented workers through California to the northwest. The couple, who drove a mini-van, was arrested along with the group of illegal immigrants they were transporting. While the couple had run a thriving transport business for arriving aliens, the downturn in the econonmy has caused them to let go...
May 24th, 2009
United States immigration officials have begun the process of building a 2,200 bed immigration detention center within 120 miles of Los Angeles. Immigration and Customs enforcement can currently house 32,000 immigration detainees across the country, with 1,400 of them staying in a Los Angeles county facility. US Immigration closed the San Pedro detention facility in 2007.