State lawmakers filed legislation Thursday designed to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, the first step to what they admitted will be a protracted court fight.

Our View: A proposal to compel the Arizona secretary of state to independently verify the eligibility of every presidential candidate is downright laughable, considering just how little the state has cared about this issue in the past.

LOS ANGELES - Demonstrators demanding a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants rallied around the nation Tuesday, hoping to spur Congress to act before the looming presidential primaries take over the political landscape.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A royal decree approving citizenship for actress Angelina Jolie was signed by King Norodom Sihamoni on July 31, Sok Sam Oeun, an official of the Council of Ministers, said Friday.

Folks, when did America’s greatest treasure, United States citizenship, become a bartering commodity for votes with the Hispanic/Latino community as per Sen. John McCain? When did America’s greatest treasure, United States citizenship, become a bartering commodity with the Hispanic/Latino Community for converts to the Mormon religion or the recapturing “fallen away” parishioners of the Catholic church or more donations in the Sunday Mass collection basket or monthly tithes.

Joe Guzzardi (Sunday, Aug. 29 op-ed) states that “An illegal alien from Mexico, for example, is not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States...” This, of course presents a most interesting paradox. If that person is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, then what legal right does the United States have to prosecute that person for his or her presence in the United States? In reality, the only persons born in the United States not subject to its jurisdiction are children of foreign diplomats — the so-called “diplomatic immunity” which protects them from any prosecution by the United States.

“All  persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Emboldened by passage of the nation's toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents.

The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for re-election.

Saying they want to know how much it costs Arizona taxpayers to educate illegal immigrants, a Senate panel voted Wednesday to require public schools to ask parents to provide documents showing their children are in this country legally.

Phoenix police will ask the immigration status of everyone they arrest or cite for committing a crime, under a new policy announced Friday.

Scottsdale police have begun to ask all suspects they arrest whether they are citizens, holding those who are in the country illegally for federal immigration officials.

Scottsdale police have begun to ask all suspects they arrest whether they are citizens, holding those who are in the country illegally for federal immigration officials.

Gabriel Ortiz said taking English classes through a program at Mesa Junior High School helped him communicate with doctors when he came down with pneumonia.

A Paradise Valley socialite has been indicted on charges she lied on an application to become a U.S. citizen.

Housing is in the dumps in Arizona; Public education is an afterthought; very little has been done to create jobs or energy policies; citizens pass away while waiting for transplants. But gosh darnit, this is important: Arizona lawmakers wanted to require proof of citizenship to run for president. What a shameful thing to waste time and taxpayers’ money on.

A bid to deny citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants faltered Monday when proponents could not get the votes of a Senate panel.