Pope Leo places former illegal immigrant in charge of red state diocese

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A large Roman Catholic diocese pushed back at criticism Friday after Pope Leo XIV appointed a former illegal immigrant as a bishop amid heightened tensions between the Vatican and Washington over refugees and ICE enforcement. Leo nominated Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, … Read more

GOP gubernatorial hopeful blasted by critics for ‘lying’ on stage about illegal immigrant hires

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rick Jackson, a Republican gubernatorial hopeful in Georgia, is facing heat from critics calling him a “fraud” and claiming he lied during a debate earlier this week when the candidate struggled to answer whether he has illegal aliens working for him. “I don’t know,” Jackson replied when … Read more

DHS taunts media for reporting about ‘Green Bay man’ illegal immigrant charged in vicious machete attack

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security called out the legacy media for characterizing the perpetrator of a recent Wisconsin machete attack as a “Green Bay man” when he is actually an illegal alien from Nicaragua. Fox News Digital has learned that David Joel Herrera-Garcia, 24, … Read more

What to know about the fight over whether New York should lose $74M for not revoking immigrant CDLs

New York filed a lawsuit Friday to challenge the federal Transportation Department’s decision to withhold nearly $74 million in highway money because the state refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year. New York joins California in suing over Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s efforts to … Read more

Newsom-backed law lets illegal immigrant child rapist seek early release again as DA urges ‘stop the madness’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant from Mexico serving a 139-year prison sentence for raping and impregnating his underage stepdaughter will be eligible to seek early parole for a second time in the coming months due to a loophole in a law signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Israel Ceja’s … Read more

Illegal immigrant Israel Flores Ortiz gets 360 days for groping girls at Fairfax County Va. High School

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel Flores Ortiz, 18, an illegal alien, was sentenced to 360 days on Tuesday after being convicted for groping several female classmates in Fairfax High School hallways earlier this year. With time served and the calculations for a misdemeanor, he has 135 days left in prison. Judge … Read more

Sledgehammer murder spurs ICE manhunt for illegal immigrant suspect

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has asked officials in Democratic-run Harris County not to release an illegal immigrant suspect from custody after he allegedly beat a coworker to death with a sledgehammer on a construction site in a suburb of Texas’ largest city, Houston. This comes … Read more

Sledgehammer-wielding illegal immigrant sought by ICE after alleged blue city murder

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has asked officials in Democratic-run Harris County not to release a sledgehammer-wielding illegal immigrant from custody after he allegedly beat a coworker to death on a construction site in a suburb of Texas’ largest city, Houston. This comes as Texas officials … Read more

Judge extends pause on work to turn Maryland warehouse into immigrant detention

A federal judge extended a pause Wednesday on transforming a massive Maryland warehouse into a processing facility for immigrants in a development that comes as federal immigration officials review a plan to house tens of thousands in converted industrial buildings. The Department of Homeland Security purchased the 825,000-square-foot (76,645-square-meter) building near the Washington County town … Read more

As immigrant deaths in custody grow, ICE reduces what details are made public

Until late last year, when an immigrant died in a U.S. detention center, Immigration and Customs Enforcement would release a detailed three-page report on the circumstances. As the number of detainee deaths swelled, those reports have been cut to four-paragraph summaries. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive … Read more