Immigration issues are big in Arizona, but we don't often hear about what happens after people are deported. The documentary "Tony and Janina's American Wedding" offers insight, following the struggles of the Wasilewski family, who are torn apart when, after 18 years in America, Janina is deported back to Poland, taking 6-year-old son Brian with her.

PHOENIX - The federal government deported nearly 73,000 illegal immigrants from Arizona in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a 64 percent increase from the previous fiscal year.

Efrain Martinez wanted a better life so badly he couldn’t even feel the cactus needles lodged in his swollen, bloody feet as he crossed the desert — and the U.S. border with Mexico — for at least the third time.

Five of seven illegal immigrants from Mexico arrested by Scottsdale and Mesa police — and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities — have been deported after a kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl, police said.

Efrain Martinez wanted a better life so badly he couldn’t even feel the cactus needles lodged in his swollen, bloody feet as he crossed the desert — and the U.S. border with Mexico — for at least the third time.

IRVINE, Calif. - President Bush, rebutting lawmakers advocating a law-and-order approach to immigration, said Monday that those who are calling for massive deportation of the estimated 11 million foreigners living illegally in the United States are not being realistic.

NEW YORK - A Black September terrorist who served about half his 30-year sentence for planting three car bombs in New York City in 1973 was deported Thursday, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

The federal government's latest strategy to find and deport people in the country illegally calls on a new set of enforcers - illegal immigrants themselves.

Police arrested a once-deported illegal immigrant and ex-convict Thursday in connection with Mesa’s second homicide of the year.

They chose the day before Gilbert’s Global Village Festival to send a message to Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman: “Open your heart” to immigrants.

A cab driver who will be sentenced Monday for sexually assaulting a woman in the back of his car after picking her up at a Scottsdale nightclub in August is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who will be deported following prison time, U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Three times a week at Mesa’s Williams Gateway Airport, scores of illegal immigrants experience the end of their American dream.

SAN DIEGO  — The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed with people ordered to leave the United States.

Alexis Molina was just 10 years old when his mother was abruptly cut out of his life and his carefree childhood unraveled overnight.

WASHINGTON – Up to 1.76 million illegal immigrants could be eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation under an Obama administration program that begins accepting applications Wednesday.

WASHINGTON – Up to 1.76 million illegal immigrants could be eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation under an Obama administration program that begins accepting applications Wednesday.