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The Federal Law Enforcement topic area addresses all crime-fighting agencies at the national and federal level. This section will provide you with the latest news, information and developments across the country and in Washington.

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Marketed as immigration reform, SB 627 does nothing to regulate ICE and instead punishes California’s local officers by removing long-standing legal protections
The ring was based in the San Gabriel Valley, where a huge drug lab was found last month
The agency has been criticised by civil liberties groups that the guidelines unfairly target innocent Muslims
More than 60 weapons, including assault rifles, handguns and sawed-off shotguns, were seized
1,200 troops will combat drug-related violence in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas for one year
Agency says the spies goal was to penetrate policymaking circles in the U.S.
Christopher “Dudus” Coke, leader of the notorious Shower Posse gang, was sent from Jamaica to New York under tight security
Raid was a part of seven-state sweep
Kyron Horman disappeared from his elementary school Friday
Danny Ledezma Martinez indicted on 11 counts including first-degree murder
New indictment alleges possession of illegal machine guns or short-barrel rifles by the group’s leader and others
Mexico filed paperwork for former ‘Survivor’ producer to be sent back to Cancun
Robbed 21 banks in eastern, central U.S.
Interpretation of the Constitution tells them the sheriff is the highest authority in the country
Flight from Paris to Mexico City was denied entrance to U.S. airspace; wanted man arrested in Canada
Murder is believed to be in connection to a double murder-for-profit plot
Seeking extradition of several suspects overseas
The retired Navy admiral gave no reason for his departure in his public statement
Several Arizona police chiefs and sheriffs say, as hard as officers try not to profile, enforcing the law will inevitably lead to it
Raid was conducted at Pakistani brother’s printing company
A source tells Associated Press that two men taken into custody from a house in Massachusetts are from Pakistan
Sensitive police documents — containing agents’ names and contact numbers — found in cartel hands has renewed fears of high-level corruption in Mexico
Officers are working with ICE to find fugitives and criminals suspected of being illegal immigrants
Former police chief Warren Riley resigned Monday