Over the past six years, federal immigration agents assigned to track down violent criminals who were in the country illegally have also rounded up thousands of nonviolent offenders. A Washington think tank says the arrests of nonviolent offenders was a misuse of funds Congress gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Federal officials arrested more than 300 members of a previously lesser known criminal gang during a summer crackdown, twice as many as last year, and arrested nearly 1,400 gang members nationwide, immigration authorities said Wednesday. The increase in arrests of alleged members of ...

Washington has started deportation proceedings against thousands of Vietnamese living illegally in the United States under a pact between the two countries, a top U.S. immigration official said Tuesday. Julie Myers, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, eased the fears of some Vietnamese groups about the ...