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US Gives Dinosaur Bones Back to Mongolia After They Were Sold at Chelsea Auction

It isn't enough that the United States consumes nearly 23 percent of the world's old, chewed-up dinosaur bones. Nor was it enough for Hollywood to commission Jurassic Park sequels 2, 3, and 4. Clearly, one of us had to go steal a gen-u-ine dinosaur bones from Mongolia to satisfy our collective pre- ... More >>

Bloomberg to Pass New Law to Keep NYC the Most "Immigrant-Friendly" City in the U.S.

Today Mayor Bloomberg will sign off on two hefty pieces of immigration legislation that will maintain New York's reputation as one of the most immigrant-friendly cities in the nation. The two laws, which passed 40-7 in City Council at the end of February, are a reaction to Secure Communities, the h ... More >>

Animal Rights Activists Exploit "Illegals" in Central Park Horse-Carriage War

As we've chronicled, there is a war going on between the labor union that represents Central Park horse-carriage drivers and animal rights activists who think keeping horses in midtown Manhattan is dangerous and inhumane.Now the activists are using illegal immigrants as PR ammo against the union.The ... More >>

Outside the Democratic Convention: Labor Rallies, Protests, and the "Undocubus"

Picking up press credentials at the Charlotte Convention Center yesterday, it was clear from the mob of journalists swarming the scene -- organizers estimate 15,000 -- that the scripted spectacle playing out inside the Democratic National Convention will be exhaustively covered. But there's plenty ... More >>

Rutgers Spy-Cam Creep Dharun Ravi Won't Be Deported -- Which Is Bullshit

Despite having bullied a gay college freshman into committing suicide, Rutgers spy-cam creep Dharun Ravi won't be deported, immigration officials say.That, of course, is bullshit -- especially when you consider some of the other people (who didn't directly cause someone to kill himself) whom the fed ... More >>

Neil Munro of The Daily Caller: Here's the Immigrant (Journalist? Heckler? Asshole?) Who Interrupted Obama's Immigration Speech

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's Rose Garden announcement of a kind of DREAM Act-like executive branch workaround was hijacked by a "journalist" named Neil Munro of the conservative website the Daily Caller. (You know, Tucker Carlson's totally legit publication, which recently took traffic trolling ... More >>

"Pedo Heaven" Kiddie-Porn Founder Maksym Shynkarenko Busted In "Most Successful" Child Smut Investigation In U.S. History

One of the world's prominent peddlers of child smut was extradited to New Jersey over the weekend where he currently faces multiple counts of kiddie-porn-related crimes following what authorities are calling "the most successful child pornography investigation in the nation's history."The New Jersey ... More >>

Constant Deportations Lead to Days of Rage

The U.S. Supreme Court And President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience

He's No Angel

The federal informant the government doesn't want you to know about

Illegal Immigration: The Soap Opera, in A Better Life

Today in El Diario: Fighting Deportation

​A woman fights deportation  Norma Cordon, 35, emigrated from Morales Izabal, Guatemala, in 1997, crossing the border with two small children in tow and, after paying thousands of dollars and facing numerous difficulties, she finally arrived in Newark, where she's lived for 10 years, El Dia ... More >>

Veniamin Gonikman, Smuggler of European Girls to U.S. Strip Clubs, Finally Busted

Veniamin Gonikman​Veniamin Gonikman, sought by U.S. immigration officials for trafficking in Eastern European girls and making them work in U.S. strip joints, was finally busted yesterday by ICE. Not that ICE really did anything but arrest him when he got off a plane at JFK that everyone knew he w ... More >>

Pablo Airaldi, the Immigrant Detainee on This Week's Cover, Is Out of Jail (Updated)

And just like that, the Kafka novel ends. ​ Pablo Airaldi, the subject of this week's cover profile, was scheduled for another deportation hearing this morning at Varick Street Immigration Court. He would've been escorted before the judge in shackles, a gaggle of his friends would've been the ... More >>

Portrait of an Immigrant Detainee as a Young Man

Meet New York bike-scene fixture Pablo Airaldi. He made friends with everyone—except ICE officials.

This Week in the Voice

​This week in the Voice, Camille Dodero profiles Pablo Airaldi, a New York bike messenger, fixture in the bike community, and legal permanent resident of the U.S. who's been detained indefinitely in New Jersey's Hudson County jail by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after pleading guil ... More >>

When Not LOL-Funny, Machete Is Downright Dull

Asylum Denied

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

Immigration Raids Under Obama On Track to Beat Bush

​A new study from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse shows what many immigration activists have suspected for some time: Federal raids against undocumented immigrants under the Obama administration are reaching the highs of the Bush administration in one agency, ... More >>

Anna Fermanova, the Latest Hot Spy, Has Hot Facebook Photos, Too!

​Brace yourself for the hotter, blonder, Russian Anna: Anna Fermanova. The new improved Anna attempted to smuggle high-tech night vision googles (worth $15,000 and considered weapons) from the United States to Russia, and she now faces a federal felony charge, according to The Smoking Gun. Not ver ... More >>

Ronnie's Kids: The Bright Side of "Amnesty"

So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Jersey City Madam Arrested for Running Prostitution Ring Out of Her Apartment

This photo is irrelevant, but we feel it sets a certain mood for the story.​You're going to love this. A smooth-operating Jersey madam revealed the details of her business to "an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent posing as a corrupt cop offering protection," according to the ... More >>

The Life and Death of a Murdered Arizona Rancher

Rob Krentz's family speaks

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

10 Arrested at Protest Over Detention of Immigration Reform Advocate

Photos by Mizue Aizeki. There was a protest in Manhattan today over the detention of Jean Montrevil, a Haitian who has had a green card since 1986 but, owing to a drug conviction for which he served time in the 1990s, has been subject to supervision and was detained by U.S. Immigration authoritie ... More >>

Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio takes on the feds

​Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose aggressive racial profiling, attempted intimidation of the press, and flashy abusive treatment of the prisoners under his supervision have made him a hero on the nativist right, says the feds are not the boss of him. Arpaio, who has carried out 11 "sweeps" of suspec ... More >>

Shyne Can't Catch a Break

​Though Shyne was indeed scheduled to get out of prison yesterday, his reps told MTV News that the Brooklyn MC had instead been placed in the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "at an unspecified facility in Western New York State." Because god forbid we as a country harbor rapp ... More >>

The Long Goodbye

Attention, immigrants: Report to the Office of Detention and Removal

A Muslim Daughter Became a Christian Son

One Pakistani man's personal journey enraged his traditional family

Giuliani's Immigration Problem

Much as he hates to admit it, Rudy loved (most of) those huddled masses

Panic at FreshDirect

A unionizing battle and a hunt for illegal immigrants collide

Holding Pattern

Another kind of 9/11 victim, Narinder Singh spent more than five years locked up for no crime at all

Protesters to Huddled Masses—Get Out!

Immigrants rally, counterprotesters react, and Al Jazeera takes it all in

The Best of 2007

Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year

Family (Terror) Ties

With a brother in prison, Sanya Siraj sells books and hopes to remain in the country.

Slick Trouble

The government's determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds

That Darned Khat

In search of New York's most elusive drug

Date Saved: Pakistani Groom Out of Jail

Save the Date

His Queens wedding plans in doubt, Tauqir Zafar Rizvi waits in immigrant detention

Marines: Looking for a Few Good Aliens?

Recruiter on trial for selling IDs to enlist illegals

We Are All New Yorkers

Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

Dearly Deported

U.S. is ousting a retiree too ill to travel

Going to Held

Detention Nightmare: Immigrant Agrees to Deportation, but Government Snafus Intervene

The Death of Basil Cuffy

An Ailing Immigrant Wasted Away as a Federal Detainee

Fighting the Tide

Claiming Special Circumstances, a Family Battles Deportation

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