Gangs from California are moving into Southern Arizona to grab a piece of the human smuggling pie. From Reuters: Walls get tagged with graffiti. Cars get shot up in drive-by shootings. Youngsters flash gang signs and battle with bricks, sticks, bats and pipes in the local park over turf. Once a sleepy smelter town on the Mexico border, [...]

US Intelligence Officials are worried that human smuggling rings could bring in terrorists into the United States. From the AP (Via Google News): In the 12 months that ended last Sept. 30, U.S. officials caught 372 East Africans trying to get into the country, the assessment said. This is the most from these countries since the Homeland [...]

More and more women are entering the United States to work as the recent crackdown on border crossings makes it harder for men to return to Mexico. From the Houston Chronicle: In recent years the familiar image of the undocumented worker has been men huddled at day labor sites or male factory workers at meat processing plants. [...]

The New Republic has an article listing 6 reasons why the border fence being created between the US and Mexico won’t work. Among the reasons: It doesn’t work. Most experts say that physical fencing would not drastically decrease the number of illegal immigrants entering the country. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that as much as 40-50 percent [...]

The Houston Chronicle has an article on the recent raid in Houston where 120 women were rescued from dismal conditions.  Read the entire article here.

The border fence between the United States and Mexico will now be able to proceed after the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding the waiver of environmental impact studies. From the LA Times: Three years ago, Congress gave Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff an unusual power to “waive all legal requirements” that could [...]

Law enforcement agents across the European continent have arrested 75 people in what is being called the largest raid against a human smuggling ring. From the AFP: Hundreds of police arrested 75 people across Europe Monday in a massive crackdown on a racket that brought illegal immigrants from Asia to Britain and Scandinavia, policing agency Europol said. About [...]

Truckers who smuggle people, illegal drugs, or other contraband products will lose their commercial trucking license in the state of Texas. From the Houston Chronicle: Truckers who smuggle drugs or people into the U.S. are now risking not only prison time but also the loss of their commercial driver’s licenses as Texas uses a longstanding law in [...]

In a case that critics are calling racial profiling, an Arizona Sheriff is arreting people after stoping them and checking their immigration status. From Reuters: Frustrated by a steady flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to take matters into his own hands. Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff’s deputies into Hispanic [...]

States are increasingly cracking down on illegal immigrants and taking the initiative away from the Federal Government. From the NY Times: Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more law-abiding, emptier and whiter. Many of the [...]