Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:

Jon Beydler’s opinion (July 16) that marijuana should be legalized is a great example of self absorption. If legalized, who would you rather have driving your child’s school bus, ambulance, fire truck, cab, personal car, etc.? A person who is high on “legal” hallucinate marijuana or non-user of marijuana? I would rather keep it illegal and fight the drug dealers and smugglers along with forcing the marijuana user to pay the high price to get the illegal drug. The article is a sad example of where some of our society is heading — the wrong way.

State welfare officials will now be reporting applicants for benefits who are not in this country legally to federal immigration officials.

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.

Arizona's early June deadline for independent presidential candidates to get on the general election ballot is illegal, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.

Sheriff's deputies and immigrant advocates are on a collision course that will send them to two busy intersections in Phoenix where day laborers gather.

Arizonans generally support the concept of local police officers enforcing federal immigration laws, but their support is fractured deeply along political and racial lines.

Allowing independent voters to cast ballots in primaries of Arizona’s major parties has been a modest success over the past seven years. It also happens to be unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday defended the construction of a fence along the southwest border, saying it's actually better for the environment than what happens when people illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico line.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies busted eight suspected illegal immigrants Wednesday in a Glendale house, where detectives were lead during the investigation of a homicide that occurred on Saturday.

Gabriel Hernandez is known to his friends as “Chilango.” The maintenance man tools around in a golf cart at the mobile home park where he works, and often sings along to the Mexican music blaring from the stereo system he rigged to it.

The East Valley’s largest business association broke ranks Tuesday in supporting a bill aimed at punishing employers that knowingly hire illegal workers.

A man driving illegal immigrants to California was kidnapped in front of five witnesses Wednesday, but they gave police so little information that they can’t look for him.

Terry stayed still in the spotlight of the police car, one foot on a concrete bench that he had slept under minutes before. He lifted his eyes occasionally toward the Phoenix police officers who huddled close by, deciding what to do with him.

Arrest illegal immigrants. Send the National Guard to monitor the border. Build a wall. Eliminate jobs.