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.

A modern, corporate-run prison in rural Eloy is the last U.S. home for most noncitizens who commit crimes in this country.

Transcript of President Barack Obama's address Thursday at the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C.:

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said Friday that some of the more than 2,000 illegal immigrants recently released by the Homeland Security Department because of budget cuts may have been convicted of serious crimes, citing "local sources."

U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl secured an agreement with Senate Democrats to pump up the Department of Homeland Security’s budget by $3 billion for immigration enforcement measures Wednesday.

Pinal County Sheriff Chris Vasquez has asked federal officials to start training his staff on the finer points of immigration law, helping deputies determine who should and shouldn’t be in the United States.

Any overhaul of immigration policy currently being debated by U.S. lawmakers will cost taxpayers at least $20 billion during its first decade, Sen. Jon Kyl said Monday.

WASHINGTON — The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, a dramatic shift as many illegal workers, already in the U.S. and seeing few job opportunities, return to Mexico.

WASHINGTON - Citing concerns about terrorists crossing the nation’s borders, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that it planned to give U.S. Border Patrol agents sweeping new powers to deport illegal immigrants from the frontiers with Mexico and Canada without providing them the opportunity to make their case before an immigration judge.

August 11, 2004

A federal judge peppered attorneys fighting over the legality of Arizona's new immigration law with questions about their assumptions of what the law means.

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.

Border Patrol agents will multiply and unmanned aircraft will scan the desert for illegal immigrants under a new effort officials said Tuesday would bring "operational control" to the Arizona-Mexico border.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against key parts of an Arizona law intended to deter illegal immigration in the state. As you can imagine, this ruling has wide-ranging effects for the ability of all states to fight against the tidal wave of illegal immigration locally.

The “papers please’’ provision of Arizona’s SB 1070 is now in effect.

Federal immigration officials on Friday released the mother of an immigration activist, less than a day after the woman and another relative were arrested at the family's Phoenix-area home.

Attorneys for Arizona have asked a federal judge to reject a new bid to block a key provision of SB 1070 from taking effect.

Attorneys for Arizona have asked a federal judge to reject a new bid to block a key provision of SB 1070 from taking effect.

Hispanic deputies supply most of the manpower for the sheriff’s human smuggling unit, an impossible-to-overlook ethnic composition for a squad that busts virtually only Hispanic suspects.

In Mecklenburg County, N.C., sheriff’s deputies have found almost 1,700 illegal immigrants in their jail system in the last year. In Alabama, state troopers arrested 218 illegal immigrants during routine traffic stops and at driver’s license offices between September 2003 and December.

Federal immigration officials say they're releasing the mother of an immigration activist after the mother and another relative were arrested at the family's Phoenix-area home.

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.

GENEVA — Arizona's new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday.