↧
Port, river issues focus of joint federal effort in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Daily operations along the Cape Fear River will be more efficient thanks to a new joint effort in Wilmington. The Interagency Operations Center on Medical Center Drive will...
View ArticleIllegal immigrant pleads guilty to raping 6-year-old girl
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — An illegal immigrant has pleaded guilty to raping a six-year-old Shallotte girl in 2010. Luis Arturo Sanchez, 23, entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Brunswick County...
View ArticleMan arrested for allegedly driving truck into bar, attacking man with machete
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A man is in jail after Wilmington Police say he drove his car into a bar and attacked a man with a machete. It happened just before 3 a.m. Sunday at 1015 S. Kerr Ave. Police...
View ArticleFeds end search for gang member near Mayfaire
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Law enforcement has ended their search near Mayfaire for a suspect who ran while they were trying to serve warrants. Bob Becker, Resident Agent in Charge with the US Department...
View ArticleMan charged with boy’s death from runaway truck in country illegally, ICE says
HILLSBOROUGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — A man charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy in Hillsborough is “unlawfully present” in the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to...
View ArticleLGBTQ immigration activist speaks to dozens at UNCW
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) – The issues of rights for those in the LGBTQ community are a constant conversation in the state since HB 2. Tonight students at UNC Wilmington heard from a well known activist...
View Article7-Eleven probe opens new front on immigration
By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers in what...
View ArticleGovernment warns of counterfeit items on sites like Amazon, Walmart
WASHINGTON (CBS News) — Federal investigators are warning consumers that products purchased from third-party sellers on five major online retail sites could be counterfeit and the fakes could be...
View ArticleArrests after ‘Abolish ICE’ sign hung from Statue of Liberty
NEW YORK (AP) – Several people have hung a banner emblazoned with a message about abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and have been arrested....
View ArticleReunited immigrant children scooped up into parents’ arms
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lugging little backpacks, smiling immigrant children were scooped up into their parents’ arms Tuesday as the Trump...
View ArticleUS says all eligible youngest children, families reunited
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says all eligible small children separated from their families as a result of its zero-tolerance immigration policy have...
View ArticleICE detains man driving pregnant wife to hospital to deliver baby, says he’s...
SAN BERNARDINO, CA (CBS LA) — A newborn is without his father Friday after immigration agents detained the man as he was taking his wife to deliver the baby. “I feel very bad right now,” Maria del...
View ArticleElections boards caught off guard by subpoenas
LELAND, NC (WWAY) — Federal prosecutors have backed off requiring North Carolina elections officials from providing tens of millions of ballots and voting documents before the end of the month. 44...
View ArticleBill making North Carolina sheriffs work with ICE advances
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican lawmakers unhappy with recent decisions by newly elected sheriffs to stop assisting federal immigration agents are now pushing legislation forcing them...
View Article‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining system
By ZEKE MILLER and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) — Eager to make border security a central campaign issue, President Donald Trump consulted with immigration agents in a...
View ArticleUndocumented immigrant charged with child sex crimes, immigration warrant
PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Pender County detectives have charged an undocumented immigrant with child sex crimes. According to a news release, Edis Donaldo Maldonado-Ortez, 40, from Honduras, been...
View ArticleUS poised to begin immigration enforcement operation
By SOPHIA TAREEN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this...
View ArticleImmigration bill responding to dissenting sheriffs reappears
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Immigration law-enforcement legislation that North Carolina Republicans have idled for months in the General Assembly is back in gear. A House committee scheduled discussion on...
View ArticleCooper quickly vetoes NC immigration bill
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday vetoed legislation requiring North Carolina sheriffs to recognize requests by federal immigration...
View ArticleICE agents arrest man released by North Carolina sheriff
CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) — Federal agents have arrested a Mexican citizen who was released by a North Carolina sheriff’s office after he was convicted and sentenced for a drunken driving death in January....
View Article