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SHREVEPORT, La -- It was a "mistake." U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., says that's how the acting director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement described the drop-off of two busloads of Haitian migrants a week ago at the Shreveport bus station, with no organization, following their release from Louisiana detention centers. "I can't help but think that the reason they have the problem is because they have an overflow of people in detainment. And they just have to do something with them. And so their normal operating procedure just got busted," Cassidy told KTBS 3 News. Cassidy says a record o...

SHREVEPORT, La -- It was a "mistake." U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy says that's how the acting director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement described the drop-off of two busloads of Haitian migrants a week ago at the Shreveport bus station, with no organization, following their release from Louisiana detention centers. "I can't help but think that the reason they have the problem is because they have an overflow of people in detainment. And they just have to do something with them. And so their normal operating procedure just got busted," Sen. Cassidy told KTBS 3 News. Cassidy says a record of m...

Figures from the pew hispanic center. they estimate 375,000 people in arizona last year entered the country illegally or overstayed their legal visas. that's 100,000 less than the center's estimate for 2008. why? let's ask mark kerkorian of the center for immigrations studies, charles cook is former president of the immigration lawyers' association. to you first, charles, why do you think those numbers are down? >> well, first, it's clearly the economy has chased people out of arizona to places where there are actually jobs. second, the arizona law has clearly played a part in people not wanti...