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You are subscribed to Immigration news updates. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Western District of Texas Exceeds 12,000 Immigration Cases in Administration's First Year 02/03/2026 07:00 AM EST The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas prosecuted 11,542 border security cases and defended 652 civil immigration cases in 2025 Illegal Alien Sex Offender Sentenced to 14 months in Prison for Failing to Update Registration as a Sex Offender and Illegally Reentering the United States 02/03/2026 07:00 AM EST Urbana, Ill. – A Guatemalan national, Roberto Nicolas-Simon, 24, has been sentenced to a concurrent 14 months of imprisonment for failing to update registration as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and being a removed alien illegally present in United States. Mexican National Sentenced to Prison Time 02/02/2026 07:00 AM EST Previously Removed Undocumented Mexican National Indicted for $1M Ponzi Scheme that Defrauded Approximately 30 Investors in Utah 02/02/2026 07:00 AM EST SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – An indictment was unsealed and an undocumented Mexican national living in Utah was taken into custody after he allegedly collected approximately $1 million from approximately 30 investors in a securities fraud scheme, when he was not licensed to sell securities.  Guatemalan nationals extradited to the Eastern District of Texas to face international drug trafficking charges 02/02/2026 07:00 AM EST Three Guatemalan nationals have been extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs. Illegal Immigrant from Mexico Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine 02/02/2026 07:00 AM EST Bertoldo Alcaraz-Ortuno, who was previously convicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, will spend the next 136 months in federal prison after being convicted of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.  Justice Department Seeks to Denaturalize Convicted Rapist 02/02/2026 07:00 AM EST BROOKLYN, NY — Today, the United States filed a denaturalization action in the Eastern District of New York against Gurmeet Singh, a native of India, who, according to the Department of Justice's Complaint, concealed and misrepresented in his naturalization application that he had previously kidnapped and sexual assaulted a female passenger of his taxicab. After his passenger fell asleep in the backseat, he drove her to a side street and the passenger awoke to find Singh on top of her with a knife to her throat, telling her to stop resisting if she wanted to live. Singh then bound and gagged her, blindfolded her, removed her clothes, and raped her.

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