State legislators moved on two fronts Tuesday to bar politicians and the agency chiefs they appoint from blocking law enforcement officers from enforcing immigration laws.

Three out of four Mesa voters support vigorous enforcement of immigration laws by Mesa police, an exclusive Tribune poll reveals.But nearly as many people say that Mesa needs to improve relations between Hispanic and non-Hispanic people in the city.

Arizona will send some of its Department of Public Safety officers to special training to enforce immigration laws.

Widespread public interest in getting local police more involved with federal immigration law should not become an unfunded mandate that usurps local control to focus on a problem that’s not even a crime.

I am currently a United States citizen and have lived in Arizona my whole life.  As illegal’s flood into Arizona, many rules, amendments, and regulations have been questioned and threatened. Not only are state leaders wanting to change the regulations of Arizona, they want to change the original 14^th amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868. Our founding fathers wrote this national document to classify the United States as an honorable, prideful, and respectable free country. Why would we want to change that?  The 14^th amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subjected to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”  Therefore we cannot take away a person’s citizenship based on their parent’s home country.  A child born from two illegal aliens should still have the same rights and citizenship as any other normal American family. The rights of the 14^th amendment declare, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the Unites States,” therefore, the urge to change original amendment would be unconstitutional and against everything the United States prides itself upon—the free nation.

The new top prosecutor in Arizona's most populous county said Wednesday he will focus on going after serious criminal activity committed by illegal immigrants in cartels and syndicates rather than average migrants who are just in the country to work.

Arizona police officers should expect opponents of a new immigration law to videotape their actions to try to prove they're racially profiling Hispanics, according to a training video released Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department has failed to ensure that local and state law enforcement partners pursue serious criminals and don’t misuse their authority while enforcing immigration law, government investigators say.

PHOENIX — As America's busiest immigrant smuggling hub, Arizona has earned the distinction as a place that's tough on people who sneak across the border.

We realize Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immediate reaction to any possible challenge to his authority is to defiantly promise he will not bend one inch. But will a prideful Arpaio truly ignore an opportunity to review the last two years of his office’s immigration enforcement and refine his strategies to focus on what seems to work while stopping one practice that’s a horrible waste of tax dollars?

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has empowered a panel of former federal, state and county law officials to craft a new policy for the Phoenix Police Department that would allow officers to apprehend illegal immigrants and notify federal immigration officials.

Police officers throughout Arizona would have clear authority to arrest illegal immigrants under the terms of legislation given preliminary Senate approval on Friday. SB 1175 would expand state laws against trespassing to also include anyone not in this country legally.

Civic leaders lashed out Wednesday at state lawmakers who voted for a bill that would force local police and sheriff's departments to help enforce federal immigration laws.

A bill approved by the state Legislature would require city and county police agencies to have their officers tackle federal immigration violations.

State lawmakers will consider whether to continue spending tens of millions of dollars a year to arrest illegal immigrants when the legislative session begins next week with Arizona's government in a $3 billion hole.

Attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer told a federal judge Monday she should reject a bid by civil rights groups to keep a controversial section of SB 1070 on hold for at least a little while longer.

April 12, 2005

A group of Guadalupe residents began planning for a future without the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Sunday.

May 13, 2005

Illegal immigrants an Army reservist held at gunpoint were freed late Wednesday — and the people who freed them vow to prove that the soldier should be the one in jail.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and children of all ages, once again it's show time.