The Supreme Court is taking a look at federal prosecutors' efforts to pin identity theft charges on undocumented foreign workers who have Social Security and identification numbers that belong to others. ...more

October 21, 2008

The 30-year-old son of a Florida congressman was charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after federal authorities found people hidden in his truck during a border inspection Sunday in Arizona. ...more

September 17, 2008

The 30-year-old son of a Florida congressman was charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after federal authorities found people hidden in his truck during a border inspection Sunday in Arizona. ...more

September 16, 2008

Two undocumented immigrants from Mexico have pleaded guilty to hostage-taking for demanding money to secure the release of immigrants they had driven from Arizona to Florida. ...more

August 30, 2008

A man impersonating a police officer told a pregnant illegal immigrant to have sex with him or he would have her children taken away, police said. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA - A man impersonating a police officer told a pregnant woman to have sex with him or he would have her children taken away, police said. ...more

July 14, 2008

SEMINOLE – Neighbors of a man found slain in his home are scared today. ...more

June 11, 2008

The stretch-run of the Florida Republican primary brought co-front-runners John McCain and Mitt Romney back to the Tampa Bay area Friday, amid news that U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez endorsed one of them. ...more

January 26, 2008

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday he was abandoning a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, but said that the federal government had "lost control" of its borders and left states to deal with the consequences. ...more

November 15, 2007

After reading the Nov 4 piece on "citizen Macklin" and his legislative objectives, I think it is past time to send him to law school where he may be disabused of some of his less than democratic viewpoints on American government and learn some American history. His six years as mayor of Avon Park has taught him little about the democratic process and his enthusiasm for Mexican bashing is his attempt to lever himself to higher offices for which he is manifestly unqualified. ...more

November 11, 2007