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US Border Agent in Texas Confesses to 4 Killings, Police Say

LAREDO, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor who confessed to killing four women and assaulting a fifth who managed to escape remained in jail Monday, police said in court records. Juan David Ortiz is being held in Laredo on $2.5 million bond on four counts of murder, aggravated assault...

Tibbetts Slaying Focuses Attention on Immigrants in Farming

DES MOINES, Iowa — The arrest of a Mexican farmworker in the death of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts renewed calls to change immigration laws, but it also focused attention on the immigrant workers whose labor is essential to the state's agricultural industry. Hours after authorities found the body of...

Experts: Legal Status Check Systems Can Be Easily Exploited

MONTEZUMA, Iowa — The systems offered by the U.S. government to check the legal status of workers like the Mexican man now suspected of killing an Iowa college student can be easily exploited through identity fraud and gaps in government systems, experts say. In the case of Cristhian Bahena Rivera,...

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