U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents dismantled an organization responsible for conspiring to smuggle Egyptian, Middle Eastern and Asian antiquities into the United States. Three individuals were arrested in conjunction with the smuggling operation. One individual is still a fugitive. Full Story
ICE HSI special agents seized 2,300 pounds of marijuana from a tractor trailer parked on Interstate 44 near St. Louis. In the trailer, they located a hidden compartment where several dozen, large burlap bags were found. The bags contained marijuana with a street value of more than $2 million. Full Story
This week, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers deported Pimentel Rios, a former member of the Guatemalan army. Witnesses say Rios participated in a massacre that claimed at least 162 lives in Guatemala in 1982. Full Story
ICE ERO officers arrested Jose Fernando Aguirre-Jaramillo, a fugitive on the Florida Department of Correction' Most Wanted list, in Waco, Texas. He was wanted in Hardee County, Fla., on rape charges. Full Story
The Mexican Interior Repatriation Program (MIRP) — a bilateral, voluntary program that ensures the safe return of Mexican nationals found to be unlawfully in the Sonora Arizona desert region of the United States — resumed for the eighth consecutive summer. This year's first repatriation flight departed Tucson International Airport Monday. Full Story
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