immigration and customs enforcement houston

• Employers Reassured About Illegal-Worker Crackdown

In an Apr 19 and Apr 20 crackdown spanning 26 states, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested seven current and former managers and 1,187 undocumented workers of IFCO Systems North America, a Houston-based pallet services company, following a one-year investigation. The customs agency is part of the Department of Homeland Security. More illegal workers were apprehended in the IFCO raid than the total of all raids conducted by the agency in 2005. The IFCO case represents a new approach to enforcing workplace immigration laws, said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Instead of fining employers, the department will file criminal charges and seize assets.

• Workforce Management
• August 06, 2009

• Obammigration ; the Federal Government Is Surrendering Our Southern Border

It's President Obama's policy not to secure America's southern border. Yesterday, his administration filed suit against Arizona for its new law to try to enforce immigration statutes already on the books. This comes after the administration brought legal action against the Grand Canyon State for a 2007 law that strips business licenses away from companies that violate immigration laws. It's clear the White House is working to make states defenseless against an illegal invasion. During a Thursday speech at American University, Mr. Obama again claimed innocent American citizens will be subject to police stops "because of what they look like" and that the new Arizona law "makes it difficult for people here illegally to report crimes." Such fear- mongering consciously ignores numerous safeg...

• The Washington Times
• July 07, 2010

• Qian Zhao v. An Unknown Agent of the CIA, et al, (5th Cir. 2011)

...NARCOTICS; U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT,. HOUSTON FIELD OFFICE; KE...

• Federal Circuits

• Ice Adds Seven Teams to Pursue Fugitives ; Seeks Aliens Ordered Out of U.S.

S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) yesterday said seven new fugitive-operations teams are now functioning in Atlanta; Houston; Los Angeles; Newark, N.J.; Phoenix; Raleigh, N.C.; and Washington. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers, who heads the organization charged with enforcing immigration and customs laws, said the new teams bring to 45 the number of fugitive-hunting operations nationwide.

• The Washington Times
• August 10, 2006

• Welcome to Amerizona - immigrants out! Assessing "dystopian dreams" and "usable futures" of immigration reform, and considering whether "immigration regionalism" is an idea whose time has come.

... as reflected in legislative and law enforcement activities, policy proposals, speeches, and schola... discrimination, (64) immigration and customs enforcement workplace raids, (65) housing and hous... regions like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Phoenix, and Seattle in the late twentieth...

• Fordham Urban Law Journal
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 1, November 2010

• Licenses, Green Cards

Documents: FBI Indictment Twenty one people were arrested Thursday when federal, state and local agencies served warrants targeting groups that created counterfeit driver's , Social Security cards and Mexican consular identification cards.

... County Sheriff's Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Immigration and Custom...Agents and officers in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco assisted. ruby.gonzales@sgvn.com...

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• November 04, 2011

• 7 Passenger Flights Disrupted for Security Issues

HOUSTON A stick of dynamite was found in a college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina, in one of seven security incidents Friday that caused U.S. flights to be diverted, evacuated, searched or delayed. Howard McFarland Fish, 21, was charged with carrying an explosive aboard an aircraft and was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

• The Columbian
• August 29, 2006

• USA v. Adnan Mirza, (5th Cir. 2011)

...After arriving, he enrolled at Houston Community College. Later that year, Mirza met Jame... In 2004, Coates was interviewed by Customs and Border Control officials after he and Williams... was working, Jessica Gilbeau, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, visited Mirza at a ...

• Federal Circuits

• Alejandro-Gonzalez vs. Gonzales, (5th Cir. 2005)

... IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Immigration and. Naturaalization Service of Houston, Texas; BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. AND CUSTOMS ENFORC...

• Federal Circuits

• Texas Man Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

HOUSTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas returned an indictment today charging Barry Walter Bujol Jr., with attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno and FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers announced today. Protecting the American public from the threat of terrorism, both international and home-grown, is the highest priority of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas," said U.S. Attorney Moreno. "Proactive investigative efforts and cooperation between the myriad of federal, state and local agencies involved was critical to this case. C...

... operational assistance provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard Investiga...

• U.S. Newswire
• June 03, 2010