- A New Jersey resident has been convicted and sentenced to three years probation for the interstate transportation of fraudulent US immigration stamps. The man intended to use the stamps to change dates on his Trinidad passport in order to show that he had not stayed beyond his authorized time in the US.

- Eight workers were arrested in northern Florida for possessing fraudulent green cards

- A Chinese alien smuggler has admitted that he illegally transported at least 100 people to the US on as many as five trips from South America over a year and a half period. Smuggler Nam Jick Cho pleaded guilty to Federal conspiracy charges in New York. The aliens apparently paid $25,000 to $40,000 each to be brought to the US. Cho could face a ten year jail term and a $250,000 fine. He was nabbed on his latest attempt along with 23 Chinese nationals. Cho and four other Koreans are charged with alien smuggling. The 23 detained Chinese nationals were recently ordered released from government custody on bail pending determination of their requests for political asylum.

- Four Hialeah, Florida men are being held in Florida on suspicion of alien smuggling. The four were supposed to be fishing near the Bahamas, but were taken into custody in Cuban waters. Smuggling Cubans has become more profitable of late - as much as $5000 per person. Cuban and US authorities are in a crackdown, however.

- The INS arrested three people in a document fraud scheme in California. More than 16,000 counterfeit documents were seized including fake green cards, Social Security cards, birth certificates and driver's licenses.

- Immigration authorities in the US Virgin Islands recently detained 15 Chinese and 3 Haitian nationals. The aliens were abandoned by a freighter and are the incident is the latest in a trend. 164 Chinese nationals have been detained since the beginning of the year. Some of these immigrants have told authorities that they agreed to years of indentured servitude in exchange for being smuggled in to the US.

- Massachusetts Bay Community College faces a loss of federal funding for employing illegal workers. The College passed the blame on to a contractor who supplied the laborers. The workers supplied false Social Security Numbers and obtained employment on that basis.

- 30 Cuban nationals have been sent back to Cuba after they were found in waters off the Florida keys. More than 700 Cubans have been detained by the Coast Guard this year, with 108 in August alone.

- Pomona, California police acting on a tip raided a home and found thirteen illegal immigrants apparently being held against their will.

- Jupiter, Florida police are investigating an alien smuggling ring based in Freeport, Bahamas that is connected to the recent capture of 33 Haitian aliens who attempted to swim to the Florida beach from a nearby sandbar. Two Haitians drowned during the attempt to get to shore. The smuggled aliens apparently paid up to $9000 each to be brought near the US shore. While illegal immigration from Haiti has declined substantially since 1994 when a civilian government was restored, many people are still fleeing due to political unrest and rising crime. Just a few days after the 33 were detained, another 21 were detained in Highland Beach, Florida after they were spotted walking down a street. They were fairly easy to identify since they had damp, sandy clothing. More than 116 Haitians were detained in Florida in August alone.

- Border Patrol agents have detained 113 illegal immigrants after witnesses heard cries from help from inside a tractor-trailer truck. Several people in the truck suffered dehydration and near asphyxiation. The two drivers of the truck were arrested for alien smuggling.

- Coast Guard officials off California have intercepted a boat believed to be smuggling more than 150 people into the US from Mexico. The boat was spotted about 100 miles off Baja, California in Mexico and it passengers were of Asian descent. Last year, a boat with 69 Chinese nationals was intercepted in the same area.

- INS officers have detained 26 illegal workers, the majority from former Soviet countries in a raid in Colorado. The INS is investigating a South Carolina business that is allegedly placing illegal Eastern Europeans in jobs across the country. The workers initially entered the country apparently on H-2B visas.

- Twenty-two stowaways from the Dominican Republican were found on a freighter off Detroit, Michigan. Crewmembers denied they knew of the stowaways, but the INS is investigating.

- A Mexican woman has died of heat exhaustion in the desert after crossing into the US near the California border. Members of the group with whom she was traveling attempted to get help from nearby a nearby army base, but paramedics' attempts to revive the woman failed. Another Mexican national also died in Arizona last month of heat-related causes. In a related matter, Border Patrol leaders had a meeting in Nogales, Arizona last month to develop strategies to reduce the number of deaths during summer crossings on the border. The INS stated that it would try to cooperate more with Mexican authorities to warn of the dangers of illegal border crossings. The US Embassy in Mexico City has sent public service announcements to Mexican broadcasters and about 40 radio and television stations in Mexico are running them.

- One month before the end of Fiscal Year 1998, the Border Patrol's Tucson, Arizona sector has broken its previous record of 305,415 apprehensions.