Two weeks after the Sun-Times first requested information about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias launched a hotline to report license plate tampering.

In a federal criminal complaint, authorities accused Carlitos Ricardo Parias, 44, of ramming his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in and tried to arrest him during an immigration enforcement operation.

Under Illinois law, displaying a plate not authorized for a vehicle, or obscuring or modifying a plate can result in fines, possible jail time, and suspension or revocation of the vehicle’s registration.

Illinois lawmakers are demanding ICE release a father detained over the weekend as his teen daughter fights Stage 4 cancer.

Ruben Torres Maldonado, a Portage Park man, was detained by federal immigration agents Saturday while his 16-year-old daughter is undergoing cancer treatment.

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

The bill would use the new $10,000 fine for out-of-compliance law enforcement to compensate the aggrieved families.

The Johnson County Sheriff's Office arrested Janette Goering Tuesday on a state charge of aiding in the commission of a July 4 shooting at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

Federal authorities say an immigration enforcement operation that sparked spontaneous protests on Manhattan’s Canal Street led to the arrests of 14 people.

Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshaled a team of lawyers on his behalf.