2 plead guilty to smuggling heroin from Mexico by drone

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — Two California men pleaded guilty to using drones to smuggle nearly 30 pounds of heroin from Mexico to the United States, authorities said Wednesday. It was the first drug seizure involving a drone along California’s border with Mexico, said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San […]

Video: Ted Cruz supports rule of law, legal immigration

In a Sunday interview with the website Shark Tank, Sen. Ted Cruz stressed that while he condemns Obama’s desire to award the millions of immigrants who have entered the country illegally, he still supports legal immigration: “I actually think the amnesty issue is broader than just another policy issue on which people can disagree,” Cruz […]

Cruz, Sessions demand immigration information on terror suspects

Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions sent a letter on Wednesday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Secretary of State John Kerry asking for information, including immigration status, on 72 terror suspects residing within the United States: “We write regarding the alarming increase in the number of individuals in the […]

California Gov. bans word ‘alien’ from state labor law

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is clearly an adage that California Gov. Jerry Brown does not believe in. On Monday, Brown signed into law a bill that bans the word “alien” from the state’s labor laws: SB 432, introduced by State Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), removes the […]