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A task force led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided more than two dozen mostly Latino night clubs, restaurants, pool halls and other businesses Saturday night, arresting 49 undocumented immigrants employed as security guards, officials said.All of those arrested work for two local security companies, which authorities declined to identify Sunday.

“We don’t want to compromise the investigation so we’re not releasing the two security company names yet,” said Jamille Bradfield, spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney’s office, which is participating in the investigation.

It’s unclear if more arrests are expected, officials said.

At 11 p.m. Saturday, teams made up of local, state and federal officers simultaneously hit 26 businesses in the Love Field area, northwest Dallas, Old East Dallas and Lakewood. No injuries were reported. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/033008dnmetraids.160e1434.html

DALLAS — News 8 has learned that federal authorities have begun a nationwide investigation of the foreign student visa process as a result of Thursday’s attempted bombing in Dallas.
The suspect in that case — 19-year-old Hosam Maher Husein Smadi — was in the United States under an expired student visa.
Two weeks ago, Smadi was cited for driving without a license in Ellis County. Police do not routinely ask suspected traffic offenders about their immigration status. If they had in his case, they would have found the Jordanian national was in the United States on an expired student visa.
It’s another example of an immigration policy that some say is best described by two words: “Weak” and “weaker.”
“Overstays on student visas is a tremendous problem,” said Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), a member of the House Immigration Subcommittee. “Now approximately 60 percent of the people in the United States are here illegally. They overstayed. They never went home. And some of the 9/11 hijackers were people who did that very thing.”
Smadi took a full-time job at a barbecue restaurant in Italy, Texas last year. His friends said he never attended school in Texas, meaning he was in the country illegally.
Smadi was originally admitted to the U.S. to attend high school in Santa Clara, California.
“When you give people visas, unfortunately it’s very, very difficult to ferret out who’s there to get an education versus who’s there to do a crime,” said former U.S. Attorney Richard Roper.
Corrupt immigration is an increasing concern for the FBI. An undercover video provided by the agency shows a corrupt law enforcement official at the U.S.-Mexico border. He’s seen bribing a man he believes to be an immigrant to enter the country illegally.
The border official in the video was paid $5 million by drug cartels to help them smuggle narcotics.
Over the last five years, 94 federal customs officials have been charged with corruption related to their jobs, all the more reason to tighten the focus on immigration.
“We must continue to have border security; to make sure that border security remains a national security issue; that we control people coming into the United States; and we know who they are,” Poe said.
Foreign students spend money on their schooling in the United States. Education is, in fact, one of America’s biggest exports. http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wf…

I am going to go to college and would like to teach but on the news I always hear of teachers getting laid off. Is there even slight job security in teaching? If not then I can major in something else. (Dallas, Tx)

I’m flying American Airlines next week and and I’m going to Orlando, and one of the airport hubs I have to stop at is DFW and they have like have a dozen terminals or something like that. I have an hour layover which isn’t a lot of time, plus I have to go to a different terminal. My question is, is that would I have to check through security again once I get to the other terminal?