Guidelines issued by U.S. attorneys in Texas showed that most illegal aliens crossing into the state had to be arrested at least six times before federal authorities would prosecute them, according to an internal Justice Department memo.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently audited 100 illegal immigrants arrested for criminal activity in 2004. Results showed 73 of them re-offended a total of 429 times. The Justice Department calls them ‘criminal aliens.’

As required by Congress (Public Law 109-162), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP). The congressional mandate required the OIG to provide answers to four questions involving jurisdictions that receive SCAAP funding

U.S. Border Patrol agents found more than two tons of marijuana inside two camouflaged trucks Sunday morning west of Casa Grande that a Bureau of Land Management Ranger had been pursuing.

In the largest drug bust in department history, Tacoma police have seized more than 55 pounds of uncut black tar heroin they say is worth at least $2.5 million.

The illegal immigration crisis has spilled over into quiet U.S. suburban neighborhoods where smugglers often hold border crossers in stash houses until relatives pay a fee to release them.

Bond has been set a $1 million each for three men accused in connection with a fatal hit-and-run traffic accident last week.

Theresa Sanchez was expecting a $5,400 tax refund when she opened a letter from the IRS in January 2003. Instead, she got a bill demanding payment of taxes on $120,000 in undeclared wages.

Those are the word of Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper of Nashville. The case of which he speaks is that of convicted murderer Ronald Fuentes, one of the 13 Nashville MS-13 gang members indicted by federal authorities last week.

We often hear from the left that illegal immigration is a victimless crime. That is a bald-faced lie and, once you read FSM’s fifth-in-a-series reports on illegal immigration, you will agree with FSM that this erroneous and misleading idea is an insult and a moral outrage to the memory of the many Americans who have died at the hands of illegals in our country.

Of the 57 arrests for delivery or intent to deliver drugs in Rogers since the first of 2005, 43 were Hispanic and 25 were illegal immigrants, according to statistics gathered by Mayor Steve Womack on Wednesday.

Investigative journalism on these questions would require the cooperation of law enforcement, it's true. But reporters routinely tap those sources (and protect their identities) when pursuing a story. After all, "the public has a right to know."

Two natives of Poland who admitted running a nationwide ring that leased illegal immigrants to work at U.S. companies were sentenced to prison Friday by a federal judge

One of the more popular claims by illegal immigration proponents is that those who enter the U.S. by breaking the law are invariably hard-working and law-abiding once they get here.

Recently, while exploring the incidence of immigrant crime and its impact on the US, I was stymied. Not by the dearth of information: it’s there if you really want it. What was troubling was the lengths to which people who rely on such statistics (here, gang investigators and the INS) will go to avoid discussing them.

The Rev. Jay Voorhees, a Methodist minister of my own Conference, has a thoughtful essay about one of the conundrums of his stance on illegal immigration so far ("My stance in the past has been to be supportive of those who have crossed into this country illegally. But then I heard about Jose Sosa

At the same time, after a steady annual reduction in crime, the annual FBI Uniform Crime Report reveals a slow but sure yearly increase in crime, especially violent crime. Some criminologists attribute the rise in crime to illegal aliens who come into the United States with a criminal background.

Anecdotes, though numerous and damning, can explain only so much. Supporters of keeping U.S. immigration at high levels argue, with apparently convincing evidence, that immigrants as a whole are no more crime-prone than the native-born. Yet such an appraisal invites an age-old question: What’s wrong with this picture?