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When it came time for revenge, Jorge Padilla Ruiz listed only one criterion: The targets of his retribution had to be black. On Friday, a Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted Ruiz of two murders he committed two years ago in North Sacramento in a case that prosecutors said was motivated solely by racial hatred. Deputy District Attorney Dawn Bladet told jurors in her closing argument that Ruiz, 30, shot and killed Roosevelt June Campbell and Lonnie Lee Taylor, both of whom were 40-year-old African Americans, "because of their race, because of their color, because of their ethnicity." Ruiz was angry,...

A 29-year-old Morristown man accused of holding his wife under water in a bathtub and then staging it to look like an accidental drowning was indicted on a murder charge yesterday. Kleber Cordova faces life in prison for the death of Eliana Torres, 26, who died May 14, five days after authorities say he held her under water for three minutes in their Western Avenue apartment. Cordova's alleged cover-up was undone by the couple's 8-year-old daughter, who told police she saw her mother struggle with him shortly before police arrived and pulled Torres out of the tub on the morning...

<p>Police made an arrest Tuesday night in the drag racing accident that shut down part of Interstate 85 during the morning rush hour.</p> <p>Police said the crash sent an innocent victim to the hospital with serious injuries.</p> <p>Police have confirmed the arrest of a 24-year-old man who they said was the behind the wheel of a car -- drag racing at high speeds -- on Interstate 85 near Union City Tuesday morning.</p>

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist. Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Texas officials cleared the way Monday for the execution of Jose Medellin, one of 51 Mexican nationals on U.S. death row, for his role with five other members of a Houston gang in the 1993 murder and rape of two teenage girls. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday rejected Medellin's request for a reprieve. Medellin, 33, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT today. The decision violates the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, according to the International Court of Justice. President Bush ordered Texas to comply with that decision,...

San Francisco authorities have been able to justify the handling of just 127 border-prosecution cases out of the more than 2,300 that the city billed to the federal government under an anti-crime grant program. Federal auditors said last year that the city was not entitled to any of the more than $5 million it got over three years under the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative grant program, which repays local authorities in border states for handling prosecutions referred to them by federal authorities. In 2006 alone, San Francisco took in $3.7 million from the program, the largest share of any jurisdiction...

Andre Luiz de Castro Martins was in and out of court more than a dozen times in the past six years for charges including assault and battery with a car, malicious destruction of property, and threatening to kill his girlfriend. Most recently, he had been charged Friday for driving without a license. It was the fourth time since 2002 that he had been charged for driving without a license. Another time, he had been charged with driving on a suspended license. Links Gunfire felled Brazilian man But despite a history of run-ins with the law and having overstayed a tourist...

Fourteen years and numerous judicial reviews have passed since José Medellin was sentenced to die after confessing to the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston. JOSÉ MEDELLIN That's long enough, state officials say. It's time to carry out the sentence. But defense attorneys, and an unusual coalition of federal officials, including no less than the attorney general and secretary of state, say if his Aug. 5 execution is not stayed, so Mr. Medellin's case can be reviewed one more time at the behest of the International Court of Justice, Texas will be rushing to judgment...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The attorney for a reputed gang member charged with murdering a San Francisco man and his two sons said today he will seek a gag order in the case, claiming media coverage has damaged his client's right to a fair trial. The comments by defense attorney Robert Amparan came after he appeared with his client, Edwin Ramos, during a brief court appearance in connection with the June 22 triple slaying."False information is being placed out there, his rights are being violated - in terms of the disclosure of alleged juvenile records" said Amparan. On Sunday, The Chronicle...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to do all it could to halt the imminent executions of five Mexicans until the court makes a final judgment in a dispute over suspects' rights. (snip) One of the five Mexicans on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas, while the others also face imminent execution.

It's something no parent wants to hear, their child telling them someone sexually abused them. But one Augusta mother says those are the words she woke up to this morning. Deputies arrested a man accused of molesting the woman's 11-year-old son. Edwin Hernandez is behind bars, and accused of molesting an 11 year old boy! Richmond County investigators were called out to a home on Heather's Way in South Augusta early Wednesday morning. The child's mother called 911 after her son told her Hernandez performed a sex act on him. She then chased him out of her home with a...

Gwinnett County authorities are working with federal agencies to extradite a Mexican man wanted for the murder of his four-year-old daughter. District Attorney Danny Porter said he expects to receive and sign a provisional arrest warrant from the FBI. It will say the county will pay the costs to extradite Mexican citizen Christian Vasquez, 23, from Mexico back to Gwinnett to be tried. Vasquez is accused of killing four-year-old Prisi Vasquez. He did so, police believe, with a blow to the head, sometime in early 2007, and then fled to Mexico. With him were his wife, Amy Yesemia Ruiz, 20,...

A man jailed in Mexicali on suspicion of running down a Border Patrol agent in January, killing him, has been released without charges, it was reported yesterday. The Attorney General's Office in Baja California confirmed to The Associated Press that Jesús Navarro Montes had been released from a Mexicali jail. No explanation for his release was given. Navarro was arrested Jan. 22 by Mexican authorities. He was accused of driving a Hummer carrying drugs on Jan. 19 near Yuma, Ariz. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was placing spike strips on a road to stop the Hummer and a second vehicle...

A Federal Way man arrested in connection with the death of his infant son in a backyard fire pit last weekend was ordered held Wednesday on $1 million bail. King County prosecutors cited Alberto Rios' criminal record in requesting the high bail during a brief hearing at King County Jail. Rios, 38, has several drug convictions and a domestic-violence charge that was later dropped, said deputy district attorney Steven Kim. Rios, who has used different aliases and birth dates in the past, also is in the U.S. illegally and has been deported to his native Mexico three times — in...

The evidence suggests the answer is yes. Regardless if they are secret or not, the bigger problem is that McCain just won’t let go of his Pro-Amnesty agenda:

FoxNewsChannel Megyn Kelly just now (9:15am CST) reported as breaking news that the Supreme Court will not hear the appeal from the Texas group who sued to stop the DHS from building the border fence......

Three members of a touring male revue dance group have been arrested on accusations they raped a 24-year-old woman at a Klamath Falls motel. Sheriff Tim Evinger of Klamath County says Sky Lakes Medical Center notified police after a motel worker took the woman to the hospital. Lodged in the Klamath County Jail are 32-year-old Christian Hulfsizer of Los Angeles, 33-year-old Radek Zahahork of Irvine, Calif. and 27-year-old Allan Abrahan Armagnac-Bernal of Azusa, Calif. All are charged with rape and sodomy. Bail for each is set at $200,000. Armagnac-Bernal, a Czech national who has overextended his visa, is also being...

Catholic Church Chooses Wrong Side Again With the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) raid in Postville, Iowa, and the resulting protests coming from the all too sanctimonious “religious”, maybe it is time to step back and take a look at what is behind these “do gooders” and “saviors” of the criminals crossing our boarders. First of all let's get this straight. An “illegal alien” is a criminal. This person is not misunderstood and needs to be cared for. They are not a pet. They are criminals that made a decision to break our laws when they came across...

States, locals swamp immigration programBy Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org Staff Writer States and cities that want to speed up deportations of criminals and suspects who are illegal immigrants by using a popular but controversial federal program face waiting up to three years to join the enforcement effort, because the federal government can’t keep up with the demand.   Political pressure for stricter policing of illegal immigration has propelled the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s 287(g) initiative from a little-noticed experiment two years ago to one of the hottest ideas for local and state officials to deal with immigration, as...

We broke the unbelievable story last night of a 10-year old girl in St. Anthony who gave birth to a baby. She's now one of the youngest kids in the country to become a mother. Residents both on and off camera were shocked and in dismay over the situation, today this is what they had to say about our story. Jim Ker, shocked resident: "I think there's a lot of sick people out there." Holly Theisen, upset resident: "Somebody would end up getting hurt by me if that was my kid and I'd probably go to jail." Kaity Dolezal, shocked...

KEARNEY — A Guatemala man has been sentenced to 20 to 32 years in prison for stabbing his girlfriend and her sister in their northwest Kearney apartment. Mauro Yos-Chiguil pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder and felony second-degree assault charges in Buffalo County Court. Authorities have said the 33-year-old Yos-Chiguil stabbed his girlfriend and mother of his twin sons in her head, shoulder, chest and stomach. She was released after treatment at a local hospital. Also injured was the girlfriend’s teenage sister. After he completes his sentence, Yos-Chiguil could face deportation. Authorities have said he is an illegal immigrant.

Madness -- politically correct madness. The FBI showed it wasn't anti-Arab by hiring Nada Prouty, and she handsomely repaid them for it, too. Nada Nadim Prouty Update: "Fake citizen worked on major terror cases," by David Ashenfelter for the Detroit Free Press (thanks to Sr. Soph): Nada Prouty, the Lebanese immigrant who parlayed a sham marriage into U.S. citizenship and key jobs at the FBI and CIA, worked on several counter-terrorism investigations, including the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, her lawyer said in court documents Thursday. "Nada Nadim Prouty accepts full responsibility for her actions and is...

MAYDAY MARCH On May 1, 2008, the open borders crowd and countless illegal aliens will again march in the streets of this Nation. In Houston U.S. Border Watch will be there to counter their protest. They will march in our streets to protest the S.A.V.E Act and to again push amnesty. Come out and show you support for the rule of law. Place: Antioch Park 1400 Smith Houston, Tx Time:1:30pm March begins at 2:00PM) Don’t let your voice go unheard! Curtis Collier U.S. Border Watch Texas Director of The Firecoalition www.usborderwatch.com 6046 F.M. 2920 suite 401 Spring, TX 77379 1-800-759-0948...

Calling it a response to public outrage over gang crime in Los Angeles, Councilman Dennis Zine said Friday he wants to alter the LAPD's long-standing Special Order 40 by allowing officers to question gang members about their immigration status. Opposed by immigration-rights activists, the amendment would bolster already existing relationships with immigration officials and require police to report gang members who are in the country illegally. But it would not alter the crux of the 1979 rule that prohibits officers from asking crime victims about their immigration status. "These are people who are terrorizing their own communities," Zine said. "They...

COLUMBUS, N.M. — Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them. In the 10 months since the section was put up, the only method federal agents haven't seen is a tunnel — "Yet," said Victor Guzman, the supervisory Border Patrol agent responsible for the stretch of close-together 15-foot cement-filled steel poles planted three feet into the ground. Agents responsible for guarding the stretch of border here "almost immediately" started seeing cuts in the fence. The towering gray and...

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. -- A man in Prince William County has been charged with raping a 4-year-old girl and being in the country illegally.Police said Julio Cesar Huaman-Usca, 24, was baby sitting two of his distant relatives Wednesday night when he allegedly raped one of the girls.Police said Huaman-Usca is an illegal immigrant. He is being held without bond. Prince William County's strict immigration policy took effect earlier this month.It allows law enforcement officials to check the citizenship status of anyone suspected of committing a crime.

NEW YORK, March 13 (UPI) -- A convicted Manhattan madam who allegedly was an informant in the Spitzer investigation has been sent home to Brazil, a report says. The New York Post said Andreia Schwartz, who pleaded guilty in January to state drug and prostitution charges, once worked for Emperors Club VIP, the escort service that allegedly supplied Gov. Eliot Spitzer with his $4,300-a-night call girl "Kristen." Schwartz later became a "confidential source" for federal authorities investigating Spitzer, who tendered his resignation effective Monday, The Post's sources said. She was quietly brought, in handcuffs and shackles, to the Brazilian consulate...

U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann has written to U.S. immigration officials to determine how an illegal immmigrant allegedly was able to cause last week's fatal school bus crash in Cottonwood. Bachmann asks the assistant secretary of Homeland Security in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie Myers, how federal and local law enforcement can ensure such a thing never happens again. Bachmann also raises questions with ICE about the suspect, Olga Martinez Franco, who had gone by the alias Alianiss Morales. A woman using that name was ticketed for driving without a license in Montevideo in 2006. Bachmann says she wants...

Four children were murdered here in my home state of Minnesota on Tuesday. The school bus they were riding home in was broadsided by a van driven by an illegal alien, Alainiss Nuñez Morales. Or so we call her now. Even that name is an alias. Just exactly who this person is and what she was doing here when she wasn't supposed to be remains unknown as of this writing. And it would probably stay that way a good long time if the liberals running local government and the news media had their way about it. You see, Miss Morales...

Three Afghan nationals are being held in New Delhi, India after they tried boarding a flight to France, via Kuwait, using Mexican passsports identifying themselves as: Antonio Lopez Juan (42) Javier Sanchez Alberto (20) Atonio Lopez Ernesto (16) According to Indian press reports, the three men departed from Nedumbaserry Airport in India, on February 11, without incident. When they arrived in Kuwait, emigration officials found them suspicious because they did not speak any Spanish. They were deported back to India. The three had reportedly arrived in New Delhi on January 23 this year, as per the stamps on their passports....

WASHINGTON – Two more Iraqis with false Bulgarian passports were detained by Mexican officials in Monterrey – bringing the total to four this month. Wisam Gorgies, a 34-year-old man, and Rana Nazar Peyoz, a 26-year-old woman, reportedly flew from Madrid and landed in Monterrey, according to reports in two Mexican newspapers today. Following questioning, the pair admitted they intended to reach the United States. They were taken to Saltillo in the state of Coahuila, for final determination of their status. Mexican officials said the are investigating "a network that could be made up of Mexicans operating in Greece who are...

m they'd never met before, nine people boarded the raft in Niagara Falls, Ont. With a puttering motor dragging the overloaded vessel -- carrying at least twice the 660 pounds for which it was rated -- across the current of the upper Niagara River, with no oars, anchor or even lifejackets to protect them if it failed, they made their way to Grand Island. Where the United States Border Patrol was waiting. Smuggling certainly isn't what it used to be in Niagara Falls. The area's role as one of the busiest crossings for bootleggers during Prohibition remains part of regional...

The local Fox affiliate in the Twin Cities finally confirms what the local papers didn’t seem to want to mention about the horrible school bus accident that killed four children. It didn’t have to happen: Authorities have confirmed that the the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday is an illegal alien. Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she’s been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias. 23-year-old...

A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist..... Michael Kamburowski, an Australian citizen who served briefly as chief operating officer of the state GOP, worked from 1995 to 2000 as a vice president of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, D.C., an organization headed by Norquist - an architect of modern conservatism who has advised President Bush and top GOP political leaders. For Norquist, Kamburowski lobbied Congress on dozens of issues,...

NVR Moderator wrote on Feb 7, 2008 11:01 AM: " Many comments to this story have been deleted because they address the issue of illegal immigration. There is nothing in this article about immigration issues. The Napa woman whose legs were crushed when she was hit by a drunk driver Sunday night has a long, tough road to recovery. Doctors at Queen of the Valley Medical Center operated on Lilian Clark the night of the crash, amputating both of her legs just above the knee, according to her husband, John Clark. Clark, 38, is the mother of two boys, 4...

Costs public thousands in care An illegal immigrant from Mexico with tuberculosis cost the public thousands of dollars in unreimbursed health care this past year after Yavapai County Community Health Services workers spent two months overseeing the patient's TB care before the patient died of other medical complications. County officials estimate that it cost somewhere between $5,305 to $8,564 to care for the patient and to test the people who came in contact with the person. If any of those people eventually come down with TB, the cost to the county will increase. County officials said because the person -...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The family of a man killed in a hit-and-run accident in Harford County last week think state police have taken extraordinary steps to protect the identity of a suspect in the case because he is an Anne Arundel County police officer. "Police are being pretty tight-lipped about their side," said attorney Rick Schmidt, speaking on behalf of the family, Mexican natives who do not speak English. "We hope they'll be forthcoming. ... At some point in time, they'll have to put their cards on the table." The suspect's name was redacted from an accident report and removed...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy who fled to Mexico with his former teacher will be allowed to return to the United States for a year, his lawyer said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security has granted the boy, an illegal immigrant, humanitarian parole, according to a letter sent to his lawyer, Amy Peck. "(The boy) is going home,'' Peck told reporters. "At the very least, he gets to speak about what happened to him.'' Marilu Cabrera, a spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, said she couldn't comment on specific immigration cases. The boy's former teacher, Kelsey Peterson, 25,...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy who fled to Mexico with his former teacher will be allowed to return to the United States for a year, his lawyer said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security has granted the boy, an illegal immigrant, humanitarian parole, according to a letter sent to his lawyer, Amy Peck. "(The boy) is going home,'' Peck told reporters. "At the very least, he gets to speak about what happened to him.'' Marilu Cabrera, a spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, said she couldn't comment on specific immigration cases. The boy's former teacher, Kelsey Peterson, 25,...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Mexican woman says she is "picking up the torch" from another illegal resident who became a symbol for immigration reform when she took shelter in a Chicago church for a year before being deported. Flor Crisostomo, 28, who paid a smuggler to drive her across the U.S. border in 2000, spurned a deportation order Monday and moved into Adalberto United Methodist Church. Crisostomo hopes her actions send a message similar to Elvira Arellano, who became a beacon of hope for millions of illegal immigrants and a lightning rod for those who saw her brazen refusal to...

No charges will be filed against a man who shot and killed another man in southeast Fresno on Christmas. Police say it was self defense. Investigators say a 26-year old man showed up at his ex-girlfriend's home on east Belgravia, around 4 a.m. to demand to see their baby. Police say he hit the woman, pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot her. The woman's cousin was in the home and shot the ex-boyfriend. Police say he saved both mother and baby. Police say the suspect had just been released from prison was deported to Mexico, but returned to...

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A man who took a dead cousin's identity to pose as a U.S. citizen in order to become a police officer was deported from the United States on Sunday. Oscar Ayala-Cornejo, 25, was arrested May 31 after an anonymous tip and was charged with falsely representing himself as an American citizen. He accepted a plea deal, agreeing to be deported, and resigned from the Milwaukee police force. A judge sentenced Ayala last month to a year of probation. Darryl Morin, special projects coordinator for the League of United Latin American Citizens, said Ayala left on a flight...

Police say they don't believe foul play was involved in the death of an illegal immigrant whose body was found this morning in a downtown parking lot. The body was discovered about 7:36 a.m. by a man who alerted police, according to Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk. The man's body had "no obvious signs of foul play," DeBusk said. It appears, DeBusk said, the man was atop the building while drinking alcoholic beverages. Officers also found some belongings on the roof they believe may belong to the man. The man sustained a head injury when he fell about 12...

Like hundreds of thousands of middle-class Brazilians who moved to the United States over the last two decades, Jose Osvandir Borges and his wife, Elisabeth, came on tourist visas and stayed as illegal immigrants, putting down roots in ways they never expected. After packing up their plasma-screen TV, scholastic trophies and other fruits of 12 prosperous years in the Ironbound in Newark, the couple and their American-born daughter, Marianna, 10, were scheduled to fly back to Brazil for good this morning. They expect their son, Thiago, 21, to follow in a year or two, despite his reluctance to leave the...

Chinese Immigrants Chase Opportunity in America by Irene Jay Liu Listen Now [7 min 47 sec] add to playlist Irene Jay Liu, for NPR This newly built home stands in the Fujian province. Many newly built homes are empty because the owners live in America. Morning Edition, November 19, 2007 · Over the past two decades, illegal immigrants from the Fujian Province of China have flooded into New York City's Chinatown. Entire blocks of the city have become a microcosm of Fujianese culture. Hundreds of thousands of Fujianese have been voluntarily smuggled into the United States by people known, in...

SAN DIEGO -- There was a surprise in a downtown San Diego courtroom Thursday, as an illegal immigrant changed his plea and admitted to luring a boy into a canyon near a school and raping him. [...] Nava pleaded guilty to committing a lewd act by force on a child under 14, admitted to being a stranger to the child when the crime was committed, and acknowledged that the act involved force and or fear to the child, prosecutors said.

A surprising yet welcome trend among some moderate House Democrats appears to have taken hold: enforcing our immigration laws and encouraging the cultural integration of legal immigrants. The latest episode in this trend happened late last week, when 36 brave Democrats crossed party lines to support an amendment approving legal protections for employers who designate English as their exclusive work-place language. Adopted by a 218-186 margin, the measure would prevent the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from pursuing civil legal action against employers who require their employees to speak English. A similar measure was adopted earlier this year by the...

A D.C. Council member's plans to place a day-laborer center in Northeast appear to be at a halt as officials struggle to find a property to house the site and community opposition to the center grows. “I don't know if there is ever going to be a final” resolution, said council member Harry Thomas Jr., Ward 5 Democrat, who proposed placing the center near a Brentwood shopping plaza to connect day laborers and others with jobs. “I would just say, 'Stay tuned.' ” As many as 200 mostly Hispanic day laborers congregate each day at the shopping plaza, which includes...

McALLEN, Texas — A man was arrested for drug possession after telling authorities that two masked gunmen had stolen 150 pounds of marijuana from his home. Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies arrived at the home near Penitas in South Texas to find the door kicked in and nearly 15 pounds of pot lying on the floor, Sheriff Lupe Trevino said. Jose Guadalupe Flores, 35, escaped while the men ransacked the house but returned later and told the deputies he had been wrapping the drugs for shipment when the intruders arrived. "The guy walked right up and said the drugs were his,"...