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U.S. Closes Nuevo Laredo, Mexico Consulate
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- The United States will close its consulate for one week to assess the security of its employees and consulate visitors in this Mexican border town after a shootout between drug gangs using machine guns, grenades and a rocket launcher. - (Mexico)
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Four immigrants agree to cooperate in ID conspiracy probe
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Four men caught in an alleged conspiracy organized by a New Jersey woman to secure Tennessee driver's licenses for illegal immigrants have agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Antonino Sanchez-Gonzalez, 28, of Princeton, N.J., Segundo Narvayez-Narvayez, 27, of Newark, N.J., Juan De La Luz-Morales, 31, of New Brunswick, N.J., and Wilson Orlando Martos-Perez, 30, of Woodside, N.Y., all entered plea deals Tuesday.
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Thirty Arkansas children left behind after secret immigration raid
Federal agents arrested 119 people Tuesday during the raid in Arkadelphia. Authorities said 115 were from Mexico, two were from Honduras and the others were from El Salvador and Guatemala. - (Aryan Barbarian)
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New Orleans: Local Man Arrested Following Fatal Crash Involving Illegal Immigrants
The collision caused the van, which was carrying 17 suspected illegal immigrants and Moreno-Monarrez, to spin out of control and slam into a tree.
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Drivers were paid to take illegal immigrants east
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Palm Beach Agents Round Up 17 Illegal Immigrants
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Deaths renew scrutiny of Texas mother Sylvia Villarreal Cardenas
By the time firefighters extinguished the April 11 blaze, the mobile home was gone. So were 10-year-old Felipe Villarreal and his 5-year-old sister, Belia Cardenas.
The deaths were the first home fire fatalities in some 60 years in this West Texas town. But they pushed to four the number of children Sylvia Villarreal Cardenas, 37, has lost over the past two decades.
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Election Bias Alleged In Boston
The federal government has filed a lawsuit alleging that the city's election division discriminates against Hispanic and Asian-American voters by not offering enough services for immigrants who do not speak English. Because of its growing Hispanic population, Boston has been required since 1992
to provide all election materials in Spanish.
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Illegal Immigrants: Cheap Labor Or Security Risk?
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Illegal Immigrants Using Your Tax Dollars?
The number of illegal immigrants in the United States who are enjoying the benefits given to American Citizens is on the rise. That ends up costing you, the taxpayer.A baby born to parents here illegally is an instant American citizen.There is also free health care financed by taxpayers. Once an immigrant crosses the border, the reward is enjoy the free perks with little to fear from the Department of Labor or immigration authorities.A vast ring of fake document dealers feed this network.
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Would It Cost Too Much To Remove Illegal Immigrants?
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Action needs to be taken against illegal immigrants
It is time to put some teeth into our enforcement of immigration laws. Any employer found with an undocumented alien on his/her crew would have their assets seized and sold to provide money for plane fare for the illegals to be sent home. While forgeries of documents could be contested, knowingly hiring an illegal would end that employer’s chance to stiff an American worker out of wages.
- GOP Chairman Says Party Backs Tancredo - despite rifts the Colorado congressman has created with some Hispanic groups.
A Swedish judge has granted the extradition of a man wanted by Essex Police on suspicion of raping and murdering his partner. Farik Farukh, 32, who was arrested in Sweden on Wednesday, has three days to appeal against the decision. Mr Farukh, an Iraqi Kurd, is wanted for questioning about the death of mother-of-two Inga Losiene, also 32. Her remains were found in a car parked outside a rail station near her home in Southend, Essex, on 5 June. Lithuanian-born Ms Losiene, who worked as a cleaner, had been missing for a week when her body was found. - (reader link) - (UK) 
DURHAM, N.C. -- A registered sex offender has been arrested and charged with sexual assaults involving two teenage girls. Santiago Bonee Elliott, 32, was first arrested on June 17 after officers stopped a car for a traffic
violation. When officers approached the car, they found
marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle and also noticed that Elliott's pants were undone and that there was a 13-year-old girl in the back seat. Elliott was charged with one count of taking indecent liberties with a child and one count of statutory rape in that case.
This week, investigators charged Elliott in connection with a 2004 case involving a 14-year-old girl. - (Tyrone N. Butts) - (TNB) - (crime) 
The Civil Service Board ordered the hearing of a 25-year veteran of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department fighting sexual assault charges to reconvene at a later date. Sergeant Alex Vinson is the officer accused of groping a gas station employee while on a routine stop. His hearing began at 8 a.m. Friday and was cut short just before 10 p.m., when the woman recording the case said she could not keep going. The plaintiff, Fre Aman, said "he struck his hand out and he grabbed my butt, that's what he did." - (White Boy) - (crime) 
Jacksonville police have arrested a man and woman accused of killing a multi-millionaire who lived near Tampa.
Sheriff's officers took Nathaniel Jackson and Victoria Jackson, not related, into custody after receiving a tip. The victim, Jeffrey Dampier Jr.
, 39, won a $20 million jackpot in the Illinois Lottery
several years ago. He had moved with his family to Hillsborough County to open a
popcorn store. Police say Victoria Jackson is Dampier's sister-in-law, and
Nathaniel Jackson, her boyfriend.
Detectives say Nathaniel Jackson continued to demand money and pistol-whipped Dampier as they drove. They say Victoria Jackson took the gun and shot Dampier, leaving his body inside his van. - (Brewski, Aryan Barbarian) - (crime) 
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Bond was set at $1 million on Thursday for a woman who was arrested Wednesday night and charged with murder. Detra N. March was charged in connection with the July 10 murder of Barry D.
Jones. Jones, 49, a former vice president at Bank One, was killed at the Fairwood
Avenue home before his body was found in a vacant lot. - (aryan_barbarian) - (crime) 
DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- A teen has been arrested in the shooting death of another teen who was on his way to cash a winning lottery ticket. Javarous (or Javarious) Dawson, 17, is being held without bond on charges of murder and armed
robbery. Investigators said Dawson has confessed to shooting Phillip Maxwell in June
during a robbery attempt in Dania Beach.
Maxwell, who was also 17, had just left a neighborhood store after cashing a winning $25 lottery ticket when, police said, Dawson confronted him and shot him to death. - (aryan_barbarian) - (crime) 
A second man accused of assaulting a woman in Holland has been arrested in Chicago.Police say Phillip Flournoy was one of two men who beat a woman in Holland June 1. They say the victim was gagged and sent running into the street naked. Police in Chicago pulled Flournoy over on a traffic stop June 28, and then found drugs in his car. But when Flournoy was arrested, he gave police a fake name. Police ran his fingerprints and when the results came back, Flournoy - still using an alias - had already posted bond. - (White Boy) 
Authorities in Seminole County, Fla., arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion he beat a woman with a thick tree limb while robbing a storage facility earlier this week. Investigators believe Jermaine Seymore attacked Lisa Boyer outside the Alafaya
Self Storage facility just south of Oviedo, Fla., Monday night.
Boyer was beaten repeatedly with the branch inside the building. She was able to escape the attack through a back window, and then the suspect ran off. Seymore was found at a homeless shelter in Orlando area. - (Svejk) - (crime) 
TAMARAC, Fla. -- Broward deputies are searching for four people who followed a 91-year-old man home from a Target retail store and robbed him. The Broward Sheriff's Office says surveillance video shows a woman and three men
watching Israel Widlansky as he purchased items at Target on Friday and put cash
in his right front pocket. When he returned to the laundry room, Widlansky didn't see the woman but he was
approached from behind and forced to the ground. He said a man reached into his right front pocket and stole his cash, but did
not take his wallet, which was in his back pocket. The suspects fled in a small, four-door
vehicle, driven by a young black female. - (White Boy) - (crime) 
One of the London bomb suspects has appeared before an extradition hearing in prison in Rome, Italy. Magistrates could take several weeks to decide the fate of 
MIAMI (AP) — Former city and county commissioner 