1.   American immigration agents in Washington State turned him back and barred Shearar from entering the United States for five years.

2.   An administration official said Morales had been interviewed twice by immigration agents and both times failed to make a case that he faced persecution if returned to Cuba.

3.   And advocates for the exiles say that even as Washington is worsening conditions in Cuba by tightening the US embargo, immigration agents summarily send back those who escape.

4.   Another smuggler among those arrested, Jorge Manuel Ibanez, was himself a former immigration agent.

5.   As a result, many legal immigrants have long complained that some immigration agents treat them like criminal suspects.

6.   At Ellis Island, a confused immigration agent shortened his name to Nudie, and he never used two names after that, she said.

7.   A female U.S. immigration agent comforted him.

8.   A few months ago, immigration agents found a group of more than a dozen men and women from the Mexican state of Oaxaca huddled under a few umbrellas.

9.   A friend of Benito said they were afraid that the police would arrive with immigration agents.

10.   A Mexican official said on Wednesday that the armed men were immigration agents who held Riera overnight and put him on a commercial flight to Havana Wednesday morning.