crime
Illegal immigrants charged with kidnapping, rape in Framingham
UPDATE: Charges against four illegal immigrants from Guatemala, arrested in connection with an alleged kidnapping and rape, were dropped Thursday. Original story:
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ICE
Detain order for Mexican suspected in slayings went astray
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Immigration authorities last year sought to detain a Mexican national charged with killing five men in Kansas and Missouri this week, but they sent the detention order to the wrong Kansas authorities. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was deported in April 2004 because he was in the
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22 Senate Dems seek deportation raid halt, break with Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-two Democratic senators asked President Barack Obama on Friday to halt the recent round of federal deportation raids in another break between the party and the administration over its handling of Central American immigrants. In a letter Friday, the senators wrote that the raids were sweeping up mothers
Immigration
Supreme Court sets election-year clash on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to an election-year review of President Barack Obama's executive order to allow up to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to "come out of the shadows" and work legally in the United States. The justices said
Immigration
Germany will ease deportation rules after Cologne attacks
BERLIN (AP) — Germany will make it easier to deport criminal foreigners following public outrage over the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne, officials said Tuesday. Authorities say 561 criminal complaints have been filed in connection with the assaults, with about 45 percent involving allegations of sexual offenses, and
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Clinton moves Left, calls on Obama to stop deportation raids
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton is calling on the Obama administration to end raids aimed at deporting Central Americans who entered the United States illegally. Clinton says the holiday-season roundups were "mass deportations" that are sowing "division and fear." She says she would ensure government
Massachusetts
Bay State lawmakers divide over ‘sanctuary’ issue
WASHINGTON – The Democrats who make up the Massachusetts delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives walk in lockstep on many issues, but when it comes to immigration, one toes a different line. Rep. Bill Keating, a former Norfolk County prosecutor whose ninth district encompasses much of the South Shore
Immigration
US government deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration deported the fewest number of immigrants in the past 12 months since 2006, according to new government figures obtained by The Associated Press. The figures also show that deportations of criminal immigrants have dropped to the lowest numbers since President Barack Obama took office in
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