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The program depends on police and sheriff's deputies to hold suspected illegal immigrants who get arrested beyond the time when they would otherwise be released. But commissioners in the county around Chicago recently adopted a new law that orders the sheriff to ignore all federal requests to detain immigrants after they complete their sentences or post bail.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three immigrant women who were allegedly sexually assaulted while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union said this week.

Vazquez began packing moments after a federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama, last week allowed most of the state's controversial law, known as HB56, against illegal immigration to go into effect. The law allows police officers to check the legal status of people when suspicions exists, detain them and turn them over to federal authorities. It is described by both its supporters and its opponents as the strictest state immigration law in the nation.

Gabriela Vazquez maneuvers through piles of clothes and toys while trying to control her two small children. "They never stop," she says, while pulling a pair of pants from an almost-empty drawer and deciding whether to toss the pants to the "keep" or "leave" pile. The decision is not an easy one. Vazquez is attempting to pack five years of her life in the United States into only a handful of bags.

A Queens teen facing immediate deportation to Bangladesh got a last-minute reprieve Thursday - one day before her 20th birthday.

At 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, February 12, guidance counselor Geneva Richards witnessed killer Maksim Gelman's capture and arrest on a subway in Times Square.

At 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, February 12, guidance counselor Geneva Richards witnessed killer Maksim Gelman's capture and arrest on a subway in Times Square. Gelman, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, had been the target of a massive police manhunt for murdering four people in the twenty-eight hours before his arrest.