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Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Support is building in New York for a "DREAM Act" that would provide financial aid and other assistance to college-bound illegal immigrants in the state.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013  A former Playboy Playmate wants a new lawyer to defend her against charges that she tried to smuggle her Canadian boyfriend across the border into northern New York last summer.

Friday, June 15, 2012  President Barack Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system "more fair, more efficient and more just."

Friday, May 04, 2012  Local labor leaders are calling for a crackdown on illegal immigrants after the arrests of 6 workers employed at a Syracuse University dormitory project.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012  Five illegal immigrants discovered in Cortlandville were turned over to Border Patrol.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012  A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to transporting illegal immigrants from Texas to northern New York, where he was arrested after mistakenly trying to enter Canada.

Thursday, March 08, 2012  Federal agents say a green card mill operating out of a Lewis County farmhouse provided fake documentation to dozens of illegal immigrants.

Thursday, November 03, 2011  A man charged with fatally stabbing a New York woman during an apparent carjacking attempt in a Walmart parking lot was free on bail after an assault arrest this summer.

Monday, October 31, 2011  Updates: .Authorities say they've charged an illegal immigrant from Honduras with fatally stabbing a woman in the parking lot of a Walmart store in western New York.