‘Invisible’ Crime: Immigrant Scams Are Big Business In South Florida, But Few Crooks Caught
Infamous as the setting for many cases of high-profile financial fraud and chicanery, South Florida is also home to a relatively unknown scam that targets the region’s large immigrant population, bilking many of them for thousands of dollars for “expert” immigration services that are never delivered, a Florida Bulldog investigation has found. The victims […]
Jewish Community Concerned Over Deportations
Federal authorities on Tuesday denied his request to stay in the U.S. Baltimore’s Jewish community is rallying to support his family and others like them. For some in Baltimore’s Jewish community the immigration issue is very personal and the case of Jesus Peraza has them taking action. Dozens of people at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation are […]
Memo to Keys police: Undocumented immigrants are human beings too.
The Honduran immigrant was riding his bicycle to work in Key West when he was struck by a local woman driving a pickup truck. Marcos Antonio Huete, 31, was lying on the sidewalk, injured, when a Monroe County Sheriff’s sergeant arrived on that sunny April 27, when zealotry would change forever the lives of Huete […]
Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England
Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England ICE arrests of non-criminal immigrants living in New England without authorization have more than tripled so far this year. Even before then-President-elect Trump took office, his message on immigration was clear — he planned to deport millions of immigrants living in the country without […]
Here’s where immigrants are moving to in America
The US Census Bureau recently released estimates of how the population changed in each of America’s 3,142 counties and county-equivalents between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016. Among those estimates are the major components of population change, including net international migration, or the number of people who moved to a county from another country, minus […]
