Anthony James Deason, 29, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison followed by eight years of supervised release for one count of attempted receipt of certain material involving the sexual exploitation of a minor.
The Gulf of America Homeland Security Task Force, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, conducted a joint operation targeting an illegal animal fighting exhibition in Blount County, Alabama June 14.
An Albanian national was charged with marriage fraud, and he and his wife, an American citizen, were both charged with making false statements on forms submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and dozens of other affiliated legal organizations urged the First Circuit on Monday to uphold a Massachusetts federal judge's decision blocking President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, saying the White House order is unconstitutional and would "disproportionately harm" Asian American communities.
Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys on Monday urged a New Jersey federal judge to immediately release the Palestinian rights activist on bail, or at least allow his return to the Garden State from Louisiana to be closer to his wife and newborn son.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 40 other Senate Democrats are looking to ensure the Trump administration is following a Fifth Circuit decision that limited a block on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program solely to Texas.