illegal immigrants

Operation Lone Star sees success with the arrest of dangerous smugglers from El Salvador. High-speed chase leads to guns, drugs, and migrants.

Authorities uncovered a wide-ranging scheme in which the owners of more than a dozen 7-Eleven convenience stores in New York and Virginia hired illegal immigrant workers, gave them fake identities, stole their wages and forced them to live in boarding houses, effectively creating a "modern-day plantation system."

A federal appeals court says Texas cities cannot pass ordinances that prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants.

The Texas State Senate has confronted one of the GOP's priority issues by passing a bill designed to make it easier for law officers to corral illegal immigrants.

In an incident that's certain to heat up the debate over the rights of illegal immigrants, a state owned hospital in Galveston recently ordered a woman, who is a Mexican national, to leave the hospital because it had been learned that she's not in this country legally.