Subject: Vincent Picard

• Illegal Immigrant Fugitives Fail to Turn Themselves In; Feds Ending Voluntary Program Today

  August 22, 2008

• Federal Protective Service Inspector Hospitalized After Running Red Light, Police Say

  August 28, 2008

• Child Kidnapping Shows Callousness of Smugglers -- and Desperation of Immigrant Parents

  November 5, 2008

• Alleged Human Traffickers Stopped Before Immigrants Brought to Arizona

    Image: Wikimedia CommonsSo-called human traffickers were apparently trying to set up shop in Arizona before authorities caught up to them. According a May indictment of 12 people, including eight from Uzbekistan, the alleged traffickers had already brought several immigrants to Missouri for construction projects, intentionally allowing them to overstay their work visas. Court records show the immigrants were sleeping in lightly furnished apartments and threatened with deportation b

  June 4, 2009

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Open Investigation Office in Flagstaff

    Image: ICE PowerPoint presentationThe U.S. Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is seeking a supervisor and agents to operate a recently approved investigation office in Phoenix. The news, (first reported in the Arizona Daily Sun yesterday), comes after about two years of talks for such an office. ICE has offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas, Nogales, Sells and Yuma, but nothing north of the Valley. "Now it's just a question of staffing and getting things or

  May 26, 2009