After pummeling wide swaths of the South, a winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic region as it marched Northeast and threatened more power outages, traffic headaches and widespread closures for millions of residents.
Read More »Senator, ACLU fight ICE holds
The use of “immigration holds” by local police agencies will be targeted by legislation when the General Assembly convenes in January, a state senator and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland said Tuesday.
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Read More »Court: Applicants wrongly denied U.S. citizenship
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — For more than two decades, Sigifredo Saldana Iracheta insisted he was a U.S. citizen, repeatedly explaining to immigration officials that he was born to an American father and a Mexican mother in a city just south of ...
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Former ICE employee pleads guilty to fraud
WASHINGTON — A former assistant to an acting intelligence chief at Immigration and Customs Enforcement has pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud scheme involving around $295,000. Lateisha M. Rollerson, 38, of Bowie, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court ...
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Read More »Immigration courtrooms reopening after ICE review
DENVER — In a trial of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Baltimore and Denver are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country — perhaps indefinitely — so officials can reduce ...
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Read More »Md. urges caution on frozen Deep Creek Lake
MCHENRY — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is urging people to be cautious when venturing onto the frozen surface of Deep Creek Lake near McHenry. The agency said Friday that snowmobilers, anglers, hikers and cross-country skiers should wear personal ...
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Read More »Feds seize 150 websites in counterfeit crackdown
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have shut down 150 websites accused of selling knock-off or pirated merchandise to unsuspecting online bargain hunters. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton and Assistant U.S. Attorney Lanny A. Breuer announced the results of the ...
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Read More »Top 5: ‘I do stand by the process that we have here.’
The names of candidates recommended to become the newest judge on the state’s highest court were revealed in the most-read law story of the week. The Court of Appeals was also in the news for disbarring three lawyers in five ...
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Read More »ICE nabs thousands with criminal pasts
WASHINGTON — After months of complaints from immigrant advocates, the Obama administration promised in August that immigration authorities would start focusing their scarce resources on finding and deporting serious criminals, and largely leave alone immigrants whose only offense was crossing ...
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