Finally, our Arizona government has dared to protest that the 14^th amendment needs to be changed. Because of the direction our society is heading, the 14^th amendment does not correctly classify how the United States has evolved. The states on the border of Mexico are battling a highly complicated illegal alien issue. The 14th amendment states “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,” although this has worked for hundreds of years, the flourishing issue of illegal parents with legal children by a new ratification of the 14^th amendment. If a child of illegal parents is born in the United States, the child should not be left here alone with citizenship while their parents are deported; therefore, the child should be sent back to his home country with his family. The United States cannot afford to provide and support these children with taxpayers’ money. In the long run, it would be most beneficial for both parties to adapt the amendment to our society’s changes. 

WASHINGTON - Putting aside party differences, Senate Republicans and Democrats coalesced Thursday around compromise legislation that holds out the hope of citizenship to an estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully.

The first measure from the State Legislature came in 2007, when a constitutional amendment was proposed to make English the official language of the state. It was passed by voters by an overwhelming margin.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is going to seek federal disaster relief to help pay for more law enforcement along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is going to seek federal disaster relief to help pay for more law enforcement along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is going to seek federal disaster relief to help pay for more law enforcement along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Right now President Obama and Congressional Democrats are in the midst of pressing forward on financial reform legislation. Fresh from victory on health care reform, they are not shying away from tough issues in this Congressional election year.

If the federal government wants to block SB 1070 on the grounds that it “is preempted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,” then they should also examine and throw out the thousands of other laws on all the states’ books which reiterate and interpret federal law.

You’ve got to be kidding me. Enforcing the law against illegal immigration is illegal? Talk about ridiculous. Ridiculous or not, such is the crazy talk surrounding Senate Bill 1070 just signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer.

The conflict over a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona intensified Monday as vandals smeared refried beans in the shape of swastikas on the state Capitol's windows.

A Senate panel approved a far-reaching bill designed to combat illegal immigration, including allowing police to stop and actually arrest anyone they just reasonably believe is in this country illegally.

August 9, 2004

Just before daybreak one Sunday earlier this year, ASU Foundation executive Michael Boulden went for a ride on his mountain bike. By 6:23 a.m., he was pedaling east on Pinnacle Peak Road, nearing Tatum Boulevard in Scottsdale.

Tempe's Dayspring United Methodist Church, 1365 E. Elliot Road, is hosting "a civil dialog" on one of the most controversial issues in America - immigration.

The United States needs to bolster, rather than limit, immigration to meet the country’s increasing work force demands, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told a group of business leaders in Phoenix on Wednesday.

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.

Arizona's undocumented immigrant population dropped by more than 100,000 in 2008, the largest decrease of any state, but the reasons for the decline aren't clear.

Elias Bermudez never intended to stay in the United States when he first illegally crossed the border with Mexico more than 35 years ago.

April 6, 2005

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.

Latinos throughout the Valley will dress in white T-shirts and take to the streets of downtown Phoenix on Tuesday morning for the second year in a row to demand immigration reform.

Oct. 15, 2004