Thousands of protesters waved Mexican and American flags Friday as they marched through Phoenix in a call for more humane reform of federal immigration laws.

Yuma’s farmers sent a delegation to Washington last week, pleading with Congress to quickly find a way to make it easier for Mexican workers with daily entry visas to reach U.S. fields.

Yuma’s farmers sent a delegation to Washington last week, pleading with Congress to quickly find a way to make it easier for Mexican workers with daily entry visas to reach U.S. fields.

The upcoming Democratic-controlled Congress appears ready to focus on immigration reform, an issue that played out in elections across Arizona and the country in the fall. The outgoing Republican-controlled Congress largely avoided the issue.

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.

MIAMI - Immigrants and their families gathered at rallies across the country Friday to push for changes to U.S. immigration policy, but as a swine flu outbreak continued to spread, attendance at some events was smaller than organizers had hoped.

Civil rights advocates sued the state of 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.

Immigration reform, the 2007 Farm Bill and animal identification were among the topics discussed Thursday by farmers and ranchers from across the state at the annual convention of the Arizona Farm Bureau.

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.

Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday she needs to be convinced that the bipartisan plan of U.S. senators for immigration reform will have real teeth.

WASHINGTON - Three Arizona Republican lawmakers gathered a group of immigrants on Capitol Hill Wednesday to promote their sweeping reform legislation that could lead to the legalization of millions of undocumented workers.

Bonnie Erbe, guest commentary

WASHINGTON – A year after federal officials announced a program of “prosecutorial discretion” aimed at reducing nearly 300,000 pending immigration cases, only 1.5 percent of the backlogged cases have been closed.

Local and national business groups are funding a media campaign launched Wednesday in Arizona to convince voters the United States has done enough to secure the border and now needs to legalize the 12 million or more undocumented immigrants and consider allowing more foreigners into this country.

Rep. Russell Pearce: The Tribune again ignores the facts. Our citizens deserve better! The Tribune’s June 17 editorial talks about finding Mesa Police Chief George Gascón’s replacement, someone who can “dispel the myth that Mesa is a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.” But it is not a myth!

NACO, Ariz. - Civilian border patrols used to be viewed around the U.S. as crackpot publicity stunts by the extreme fringe of the immigration control movement.

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.

By Thomas Baranick

WASHINGTON - Backed into a corner by Arizona's tough new immigration law, Democrats and Republicans alike find themselves grappling with a volatile issue neither party wanted to fight over just before important midterm congressional elections.

PHOENIX - State and local governments that have enacted immigration laws are threatening the existence of some businesses and instead should let the federal government confront the problem in a way that keeps the American economy supplied with labor, a national business leader said Wednesday.

A new advocacy group tried to set a peaceful tone Tuesday to the state and county’s most vitriolic political debate — immigration.

Opponents of the controversial immigration bill signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last week have several suggestions on how the state should have handled the immigration issue.

The so-called "immigration" issue is really a metaphor, a proxy for power plays by various factions where problem solving is the least of the concerns.