May 13, 2005

Illegal immigrants an Army reservist held at gunpoint were freed late Wednesday — and the people who freed them vow to prove that the soldier should be the one in jail.

A civil rights group is claiming a new memo from immigration officials proves that Jan Brewer is legally wrong in denying driver licenses to individuals in the president's "deferred action'' program.

A coalition of civil rights groups filed their own challenge Monday to Arizona’s new law aimed at illegal immigrants, charging it was adopted “with the purpose and intent to discriminate against racial and national origin minorities.”

DENVER — The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.

July 2, 2004

PHOENIX – A report by a Tucson-based human rights group contends that Border Patrol agents routinely deny food, water and medical treatment to illegal immigrants in custody, including those in life-threatening conditions.

Protesters of Arizona's immigration law held signs and chanted as they marched to the Maricopa County jail in downtown Phoenix on Saturday.

Children skipped across the state Capitol grounds Monday waving tiny American flags. Parents draped themselves in larger flags.

LOS ANGELES - Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush's latest proposal.

President Bush's immigration reform proposal was slammed Wednesday as inadequate by immigrant-rights advocates and as an abdication of the nation's borders by those pushing tougher enforcement.

While hundreds of cities and towns nationwide will have rallies today for immigrants rights, the Valley's own activist groups are planning to remain largely quiet.

Civil rights advocates sued Arizona in federal court Tuesday, claiming the state’s Legal Arizona Worker Act violates the U.S. Constitution and threatens the success of Arizona businesses.

WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats struggled Wednesday over the final details of an elusive deal that would grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and fortify the border.

Bishops leading the Phoenix and Tucson Catholic dioceses have been challenged by Somos America to speak out stronger for immigration reform issues and on behalf of migrants, many of whom they say are staying away from church services for fear of being arrested and deported.

Immigrants-rights advocates frustrated with an increasingly hostile Arizona political climate are reaching back 15 years for inspiration to change hearts and minds.

Immigrants-rights advocates frustrated with an increasingly hostile Arizona political climate are reaching back 15 years for inspiration to change hearts and minds.

President Bush's immigration reform proposal was slammed Wednesday as inadequate by immigrant-rights advocates and as an abdication of the nation's borders by those pushing tougher enforcement.

Thousands descended upon a row of jails Saturday in Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policy of enforcing immigration laws.

PARIS - The French premier on Tuesday announced tightened controls on immigration, part of his government's response to the country's worst civil unrest in four decades.

The Mexican flag flew beside the American flag in Mesa on Saturday as an estimated 2,000 Hispanics pledged to boycott gasoline for two days in support of immigration reform.