Category: San Francisco
San Fernando Valley man pleads guilty in visa fraud scheme
LOS ANGELES – A West Hills man has pled guilty to visa fraud for filing bogus paperwork on behalf of businesses seeking temporary work visas, as well as fraudulently charging prospective immigrants in Mexico thousands of dollars for visas. Carlos Alberto Silva, 29, of West Hills, was arrested last month at his business in Canoga [...]
CBP launches human trafficking awareness campaign
“Don’t Be Fooled†to Complement Central America/Mexico Campaign WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today launched two public service announcements as part of the “Don’t Be Fooled†campaign – a public awareness campaign designed to educate citizens and encourage public vigilance to combat human trafficking within local communities, and invite others to join [...]
Why Pinoy Pulitzer winner Vargas won’t be deported
By Alex P. Vidal AS LONG as he did not commit a serious crime, the government of the United States will never waste its resources to zero in and deport confessed undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas. U.S. has a lot of problems to tackle and prioritize than throw the books on the 30-year-old journalist who [...]
Legalizing racial profiling proves burdensome for states
Clarissa MartÃnez-De-Castro, NCLR’s Director of Immigration and National Campaigns, responds to recent action on immigration bills in four states Washington, D.C. – Throughout the past week, state-level legislative and judicial action has created an increasingly complex patchwork of immigration laws that underscore the need to address immigration reform at the national level.  On Tuesday, June [...]
Immigrants: Building U.S. Competitiveness – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
By Gary Locke and Carlos Gutierrez America’s economic future depends on the strength and innovative capacity of our people. We must make the American workforce the strongest in the world. That means educating and training our people. It also means ensuring we continue to bring to our shores those individuals with the skills, innovative capacity [...]
LAPD serves warrants in SF Giants fan attack
LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2011 (AFP) – Los Angeles police detained several people for questioning and served search warrants Sunday as part of an investigation into the severe beating of a San Francisco Giants supporter at Dodger Stadium. The beating took place March 31 after the Major League Baseball season opener between the Los Angeles [...]
Supreme Court orders California to free prisoners
By Lucile Malandain WASHINGTON, May 23, 2011 (AFP) – The U.S. Supreme Court ordered California Monday to free thousands of prison inmates, saying chronic overcrowding violated inmates’ rights – but one judge warned the ruling was “outrageous.” In a narrow 5-4 majority ruling upholding a lower court decision, the top U.S. court said the release [...]
PlayStation Network revival stumbles
(AFP) Though Sony’s PlayStation Network had just recently been revived last May 15, the discovery of a flaw in resetting passwords or a security hole in the system which hackers could utilize quickly put the Sony staff into a state of unrest. The vulnerability in the system, found in the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music [...]
Yemeni kept behind bars after U.S. plane scare in SFO
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2011 (AFP) – A Yemeni man accused of trying to break into the cockpit of a U.S. airliner yelling “Allahu Akbar” has a history of mental health problems, a U.S. judge said Friday, ordering him to remain behind bars. Judge James Larson said a pre-trial report indicates that Rageh al-Murisi, 28, [...]
Cyber scams rife at social networks: Microsoft
By Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 2011 (AFP) – Social networks are “lucrative hot beds” for cyber scams as crooks endeavor to dupe members of online communities, according to a Microsoft security report released on Thursday. “Phishing” attacks that use seemingly legitimate messages to trick people into clicking on booby-trapped links, buying bogus software, [...]
