The New York Times' Solomon Moore reports on what has evidently become an annual event: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials arresting foreigners who belong to gangs. The practice first started in 2005 when the Dept. of Homeland Security's ICE targeted the El Salvadoran ...

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu has a "day 3" story on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a Mississippi factory that rounded up a record number of almost 600 undocumented immigrants. Hsu points out that the raid occurred, even though the factory was using the federal e-verify ...

The New York Times' Adam Nossiter follows-up on yesterdays report on immigration raids in Mississippi-- to say it's much bigger than previously thought. About 595 people were rounded-up-- after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents put the figure at 350 on Monday.

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I blogged yesterday about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement scrapping its Scheduled Departure program that asked undocumented immigrants to turn themselves in. It seems that the Dept. of Homeland Security agency has quickly reverted to old habits-- an ICE raid detained 350 workers yesterday at a factory in Laurel, Miss.

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After just three weeks, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement junked their "Operation Scheduled Departure" where 457,000 undocumented immigrants had the chance to turn themselves in exchange for....not being detained, I guess. The New York Times reports the final tally to be ...

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu and Kari Lyderson took a look on Sunday at the newest -- and probably most ineffective -- immigration policy: "Scheduled Departure." While the name evokes dread about whether your plane will leave on time, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ...

The New York Times' Julia Preston reports on the Iowa Labor Commission's finding that 57 underage workers were employed at Agriprocessors, a meatpacking plant in tiny Postville, Iowa. The investigation comes after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in May, which detained ...

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu reports on the dramatic shift in U.S. immigration policy toward mass arrests of undocumented immigrant workers. Five years ago, the feds arrested 72 such workers. Already this year, though, the Dept. of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs ...

Among other things, government is supposed to try to help increase employment, right?  But it almost looks like the federal and some state governments are trying to cut jobs in this country with overly aggressive on-site inspections.  Businesses are trying to fight back because, as Julia Preston ...

The New York Times' Nina Bernstein reports that the Dept. of Homeland Security is promising to provide better information about immigrants that die while detained. A Dept. inspector general report finds bad information sharing between federal agencies about the deaths of undocumented ...