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A Salvadoran man who illegally entered the United States in 2021 has been removed from the country a year after his conviction in Maryland on rape and assault charges, according to U.S. Immigration ...

"What I loved about Resident Evil, apart from the fact it was a great game, was it was clearly patterned on a series of ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the arrests of several migrant offenders convicted of sex crimes ...

T he cellphone videos of the predator-catching plot are shaky, but they show the seconds before the lives of two strangers — and many of the college students recording them — ...

A total of 11,340 individuals suspected to be not lawfully present in the U.S. were charged or convicted of a 21,648 offenses in 2025.

After President Donald Trump met with Angel Families this weekend, DHS announced it had arrested more illegal pedophiles, ...

President Trump said he's directing the Pentagon and other federal agencies to identify and release files related to UFOs and ...

Third suspect arrested in alleged brutal North Carolina home invasion involving sexual assault, kidnapping charges. ICE detainers placed on two suspects.

The arrest of an illegal alien who allegedly sliced his wife’s neck open with a box cutter in Maryland would have been ...

Describing him as an ‘illegal alien’, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that the man will remain in custody until ...