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The issue of immigration is a hotly debated issue at the federal, state and local level. Some feel immigrants from other countries take jobs and resources away from natural born citizens, while others believe our country our country was founded and populated by people seeking a better life away from persecution. At the heart of the debate is the issue of "illegal" immigrants, who enter the United States unknown to officials and remain in the country undocumented.
The issue of immigration is a hotly debated issue at the federal, state and local level. Some feel immigrants from other countries take jobs and resources away from natural born citizens, while others believe our country our country was founded and populated by people seeking a better life away from persecution. At the heart of the debate is the issue of "illegal" immigrants, who enter the United States unknown to officials and remain in the country undocumented.
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Feds considers changing deportation policy
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- New changes may be implemented to a federal policy that in the past has allowed the deportation of all undocumented immigrants picked up by law enforcement, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Hopefully on a local and...Tags: Extradition, Migration, Labor Legislation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Career and Workplace
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15 suspected illegal immigrants caught on beach
SAN DIEGO -- At least 15 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested after an open Mexican fishing boat washed ashore in the Ocean Beach area early Monday, authorities said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents caught the people on beach near...
Tags: Fishing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Illegal Immigrants
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Border agent charged with choking immigrant
SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent faces civil rights charges for allegedly choking and kneeing on an illegal immigrant during an incident last July, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed on Monday. The immigrant suffered an injury...
Tags: Prosecution, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Illegal Immigrants, Crime, Law and Justice
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Foreign students banned from pedicab driving
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- Citing "unacceptably high" complaints, the U.S. State Departmentis no longer allowing foreign college students to work as pedicab drivers. The new rule is particularly important in San Diego, where every summer hundreds of J-1 Visa...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Politics, U.S. Department of State, Interior Policy
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Suspected illegal immigrants arrested in Coronado
CORONADO, Calif. -- U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a group of suspected illegal immigrants on a Coronado beach Friday after a getting an apparently bogus boating distress call that may have been intended as a diversion, authorities reported....
Tags: U.S. Coast Guard, Fishing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Illegal Immigrants
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Escondido teen sentenced for raping girl
VISTA, Calif. -- An 18-year-old Escondido man who admitted raping a 12-year-old girl over a several-month period last year was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail and four years probation. Jose Manuel Ayala pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Punishment, Court Preliminary, Trials
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Vietnam vets protest possible deportation to Mexico
Los Angeles TimesTwo brothers, now in their 60s, are waging a legal battle to prevent the country they served in Vietnam from deporting them to Mexico. Brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela still don their dress blue military uniforms with the ramrod-straight posture...Tags: Extradition, Lawyers, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Misdemeanors, Crimes
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12 suspected immigrants arrested near OB Pier
SAN DIEGO -- U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 12 suspected illegal immigrants who came ashore near the Ocean Beach Pier shortly before sunrise Thursday.
A citizen reported spotting the group about 5:15 a.m. on the shoreline south of the Niagara...Tags: Fishing, Mexico, Lifestyle and Leisure, Illegal Immigrants
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Officers tested daily at world's busiest border crossing
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN YSIDRO, Calif. -U.S. Customs and Border Protectionofficers granted Fox 5 rare behind-the-scenes access to their operations, which they described as both dangerous and rewarding. Roughly 85,000 people are inspected each day at the San Ysidro Port of...Tags: Heroin, Organized Crime, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Methamphetamine (drug), Science and Technology
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French bakery owner avoids jail for hiring illegal workers
SAN DIEGO -- The owner of a Pacific Beach bakery who continuously hired illegal immigrants even though he had been fined by the federal government in the 1990s for doing the same thing was sentenced Thursday to five years probation and ordered to pay...Tags: Prosecution, Employees, Politics, Fines, Interior Policy
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Border agent who hid undocumented dad avoids jail
City News ServiceSAN DIEGO -- A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who hid his illegal-immigrant and drug-selling father at his home in San Ysidro avoided jail when he was sentenced Friday. Marcos Manzano Jr., 27, pleaded guilty in July to harboring a fugitive. U.S....Tags: Judges, Lawyers, Prosecution, Prisons, Politics
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Woman, 85, sentenced for immigrant smuggling
SAN DIEGO -- An 85-year-old Chula Vista woman who ran a human smuggling organization out of a Tijuana hotel, bringing undocumented immigrants across the Mexican border into the United States over a period of decades, was sentenced today to 2 1/2 years...Tags: Judges, Migration, Justice System, Punishment, Politics
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