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MIAMI – Four individuals were arrested in Naples, Fla., Aug. 31, for conspiring to commit immigration fraud. These arrests resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Professional Responsibility, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Collier County Sheriff's Office.

CHICAGO - Special agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close partnership with local law enforcement, arrested 25 individuals during a week-long operation that ended late Tuesday. This is the latest local effort in an ongoing national ICE initiative to target foreign-born gang members.

Companies Illegally Provided Fake Immigration Services, Falsely Promising Earthquake Victims Legal Immigration Status NEW YORK - Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that his office has shut down two fraudulent immigration service companies for targeting and defrauding Haitian nationals who were affected by the devastating January 2010 earthquake. The entities defrauded the victims of thousands of dollars by illegally providing immigration services they were not authorized to provide and by misrepresenting a new law that granted Temporary Protected Status ("TPS") to qualified Haitian nationals. "These con artists preyed on vulnerable families in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, by misrepresenting the law and providing fake immigration services. Today, these organizations are being held accountable for their fraudulent actions and their brazen disregard for the people they are purporting to help," said Attorney General Eric T...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice challenged the state of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, in federal court today. In a brief filed in the District of Arizona, the Department said S.B. 1070 unconstitutionally interferes with the federal government’s authority to set and enforce immigration policy, explaining that “the Constitution and federal law do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country.” A patchwork of state and local policies would seriously disrupt federal immigration enforcement. Having enacted its own immigration policy that conflicts with federal immigration law, Arizona “crossed a constitutional line.”