WASHINGTON - While a new Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants is attracting all the attention for its focus on targeting illegal immigrants, communities across the country have long focused on identifying those here illegally and alerting federal authorities.

LOS ANGELES - Victoria Sellers, daughter of the late actor Peter Sellers, was arrested Monday in Hollywood on immigration violations and will be deported to Britain, federal authorities said.

The bizarre suicide Tuesday of the director of federal immigration operations in the Valley will not affectoperations to curb the flow of illegal immigrants, an official said Wednesday.

FLAGSTAFF - Local police intend to stay focused on controlling criminal activity within their own cities and counties, and won’t join federal immigration agents with increased efforts to crack down on illegal border crossers.

FLAGSTAFF - Local police intend to stay focused on controlling criminal activity within their own cities and counties, and won’t join federal immigration agents with increased efforts to crack down on illegal border crossers.

CLEVELAND - John Demjanjuk, standing without assistance amid falling snowflakes, emerges from an office building, lifts his right arm to place a cap on his head, then takes 18 steps to a car. He takes those steps with nobody helping him, opens the passenger-side car door, slowly seats himself and shuts the door.

Even from jail in southern Arizona, Yaser Alamoodi is campaigning. But the 29-year-old Saudi, who was student government president last year at Arizona State University, is not running for office or fighting a ballot proposition. He’s fighting to stay in the U.S.

An industrial spy tries to steal $20 million in trade secrets from Minnesota-based Valspar paints. The kingpin of a Houston-based drug counterfeiting ring makes millions plugging his fake pharmaceuticals into the pipeline of Britain's socialized medical system. In Washington, the Defense Department unwittingly buys and installs knockoff Cisco computer software to track troop movements.

ABOARD THAI AIRWAY TO LOS ANGELES - John Mark Karr, the suspect in the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, was expelled from Thailand on Sunday and put on a plane to Los Angeles. As he left, another bombshell development emerged: reports that Karr sought treatment at a Thai sex-change clinic.

LOS ANGELES - Choung Yang-suk just bought a condo in the city’s Koreatown district — far from her home in South Korea — and plans to retire there in a few years to be near her two grown children.

Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native - in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write - signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.

Facts and figures are flying as debate heats up over a proposed new state law to discourage illegal immigration.

WASHINGTON - Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 2,200 people in a 22-month investigation targeting Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the United States, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants.

When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law more than two years ago, she issued a directive to the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board to implement a training program for officers around the state on how to properly enforce provisions regarding those suspected of living in the U.S. illegally.

Federal immigration officials are opening a new facility in the East Valley that will handle a surge in illegal immigrants who are being deported to Central America. The processing center at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport will serve as the final point where the immigrants will be in the U.S. before boarding a plane that takes them south.

The Department of Homeland Security has postponed training eight Pinal County deputies and detention officers as the federal agency reassesses the program that allows local police to enforce immigration law.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half-day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.

The top immigration agent in Puerto Rico has been named the fifth temporary chief in 13 months for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Valley.

The top immigration agent in Puerto Rico has been named the fifth temporary chief in 13 months for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Valley.

Law enforcement officers are ready to enforce SB 1070 — if they have to enforce it at all.

TUCSON - The U.S. government has spent more than $51 million over the past four summers flying nearly 64,000 illegal immigrants back to the Mexican interior after they were caught crossing the border.

Having already had success busting several gangs of suspected human smugglers, a special team of U.S. and local police ratcheted up their efforts Friday by moving into new headquarters to further coordinate their work.

Alonzo Pena, the top federal immigration enforcement official in Arizona, flipped through a series of slides Tuesday to illustrate the daunting task facing federal officers.