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Arizona Sheriff Calls New Law a `Nightmare`

Estrada opposes Arizona's new "Papers, please" law, calling instead for a more realistic, compassionate response.

(WASHINGTON D.C. MSNBC) - In 2005, John McCain sponsored comprehensive immigration reform that would have offered a path toward citizenship for illegal residents.

"No wall, no barrier, no sensor, no barbed wire will ever stop people from trying to do what is a basic yearning of human beings all over the world, and that is to have better lives for themselves and their families," the Republican senator from Arizona said.

Immigration/Human Rights News: The Arizona Prairie Fire Spreads

“It’s dead” -Mexican merchant in Nogales

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Like the blazing sparks of a wild prairie fire, the political conflagration set off by Arizona's Senate Bill requiring police to demand identification and arrest anyone suspected of being in the state without proper immigration documents is burning.

Letter to the Editor: John McCain - `The Man Who Was`

It is truly sad to see how the leprosy that American politics has become, has eaten away “The man that was”!

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - America certainly owes a debt to John McCain. He endured things as a POW that we cannot even begin to imagine.

Boycott Over Immigration Threatens Economy, Jobs:
Welcome to Arizona, Amigo

What do Arizona's Real Estate Agents Think? Arizona, Get Ready to Take it in the Shorts!

(LOS ANGELES) - "Tear Down the Wall" is the chant being heard by increasing numbers of Americans, as the U.S./Mexico border comes increasingly into view as a modern day Berlin Wall.

But nothing, absolutely nothing, has stirred emotions like Arizona's new criminal profiling law.

A Day in the Life of an Illegal Alien

This essay is about an average day here for an illegal resident and worker.

(RESTRICTED) - First I would like to say that I tried to come here legally. I filed the visa/passport application with the US State Dept and paid my 1250 peso ($100 US) application fee. I was turned down and did not get that fee back.

I try to do things correctly, but really wanted to come here...so I did. I am an illegal alien, working illegally and getting numerous benefits... health care, assistance with my electric bill and while I am not on food stamps, I get a lot of free food from various sources.

Arizona`s New Immigration Law

Arizona has about 1.7 million residents of Hispanic or Latino origin.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Arizona's new immigration law makes it a state crime to be in the state illegally; immigrants have to carry alien documents, and police can to question anyone they suspect is in the U.S. illegally.

Given the meaninglessness of so many of the potential criteria that law enforcement might consider, e.g., eating a burrito, wearing coveralls, speaking Spanish, the one that may end up counting most is race.

Bloodshed in Juarez: 15 Killed in 11 Hours

How many have to die before something changes? The answer seems far away.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - Perhaps the term "drug war" has been so greatly abused in America that people fail to realize there is a real drug war taking place no more than a stone's throw from the U.S. border with Mexico.

The rate of death from the drug war in Mexico absolutely smokes anything taking place in the Mideast, at least on the average day.

Special Feature: Solidarity with a Besieged Sister City

Ciudad Juarez has an estimated population of 1-1.3 million people.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - New Mexico State University criminal justice Professor Cynthia Bejarano has long heard the painful stories and seen the sorrowful faces from the violence raging away in Ciudad Juarez just forty-five minutes south of her Las Cruces campus.

Lately, students have had loved ones attacked and normal back-and-forth family visitations disrupted in their binational community.

Special Report: The Arizona Effect

Mexico's President says the bill represents an obstacle for the solution of common problems in the border region.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In a controversial move, Arizona’s state legislature and Governor re-injected the immigration question back into the center of US politics.

SB 1070 gives local police authority to demand documents from any individual suspected of being in the US illegally.

Oregon Coalition Condemns Discriminatory New Law Passed in Arizona State

Arizona: "Its a dry kind of hate"

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition condemns the decision of Arizona's governor to sign the most extreme legislation anywhere in the country to deal with the nation's broken immigration system.

SB 1070, signed into law this afternoon, will require local police officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are undocumented immigrants.