The federal Laken Riley Act expands the scope of crimes that could place a person living in the U.S. without legal status in ...

Florida will be one of the first states in the country to have state law enforcement be given expanded power for immigration enforcement under a deal with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Gov ...

Five Georgia sheriff’s offices have signed up for a controversial federal program, known as 287g, which allows local law ...

The Senate passed the bill on a vote of 39-9 on Monday with Democrats making up the votes against it. It now heads to the House.

Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple says they've heard from federal officials, asking if they have space for potential ...

Get your badge, put on your cowboy hat, and get out there and arrest the illegals. Do your job, Sheriff!” That’s one of many public comments Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux, a Democrat, said he’s ...

Two counties in our area are working with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to help detain illegal immigrants.

For many sheriffs in our community the answer to the question of Federal Program 287(g) was the same: We will uphold the law, but we won’t allow anything ...

The proportion of non-criminals was even higher in the 287G program: 65 percent of the 44,692 it arrested in the 2009 fiscal year had no criminal convictions, down from 72 percent of 37,776 taken ...

As areas across the nation have seen an increasing number of ICE raids recently, Knox County’s detention center has also had an increase in the number of immigration detainees, according to ...