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Brother and Sister Face Deportation After Working as Informants
The Houson Chronicle reported that siblings Emilio and Analia Maya, are facing deportation after working as confidential informants (CI’s) for the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE).
The siblings came from Argentina in the late 1990’s and settled in Saugerties, NY. A small town in upstate New York by the Catskill Mountains. Over the years, the pair worked blue collar jobs and became well [...]
Confidential Informants Who Help the U.S. Can Face Deportation
The Los Angeles Times reported today that dozens of foreign national confidential informants (CI) who have helped federal law enforcement agencies such as the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have said that they have been led to believe that federal agencies would help them get permanent residence (green cards) in exchange for their cooperation in undercover investigations, [...]
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules that Tax Perjury is a Deportable Offense
Mr. Jack Townsend, a tax attorney from Houston, TX who has written numerous articles about federal tax crimes, reported today that the The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 days ago that Tax Perjury is a deportable offense. That ruling was made in the case of Kawashima v. Holder, F.3d., (9th Cir. 2010).
According to Mr. Townsend’s article, the Court ruled that [...]
BIA Clarifies that Conviction for Alien Smuggling Not Necessary to Establish Deportability
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled recently and as a result clarified in the case of Matter of Martinez-Serrano, 25 I&N Dec. 151 (BIA 2009) that a conviction for Alien Smuggling is not necessary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to charge a foreign national with a ground of deportability under section 237(a)(1)(E)(i) – (Alien [...]
Almost 300 Arrested in Immigration Enforcement Push
The Orlando Sentinel reported today that agents from the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) arrested 286 people in California in a 3 day operation to apprehend suspected immigrants with criminal records and, undocumented immigrants without criminal records in California.
This enforcement action was conducted by the USICE’s Fugitive Operations Program, which is responsible for identifying, apprehending, and deporting criminal aliens and immigration fugitives who have ignored [...]
