August 5, 2004

SCOTTSDALE – Strict immigration laws such as those passed in Arizona and Alabama cause stress for U.S.-born Latino students and those here illegally and can keep them from succeeding in college, a panel of psychologists and student counselors said Monday.

WASHINGTON - A group of Arizona students went door-to-door asking friends and businesses for funds to help them take a message to Congress: They want to continue their education here in the country they have always known as home.

Arizona State University has helped as many as 200 illegal immigrants obtain private scholarships this semester to help pay for higher out-of-state tuition they are charged under state law, university President Michael Crow said.

Jeanne Simons, guest commentary

WASHINGTON – Immigration officials announced that they deported nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants in fiscal 2011, setting a record for a third consecutive year under the Obama administration.

Caps and gowns mark the rite of passage for thousands of East Valley teenagers finishing high school this month, but for some in an invisible class, the celebration is bittersweet.

Jose de la Isla, guest commentary

Arizona’s immigration laws — Senate Bill 1070 and the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) — were designed to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state by levying punishments on Arizona businesses that hire undocumented immigrants.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to allow undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States, according to an agency memo.

What has happened to our high schools? Where have the moral values that were instilled in the 1950s gone? When did teachers and coaches become “sexual predators?” Why is globalism and not Americanism being taught in our taxpayer-funded classrooms and gyms?

GLENDALE - About 300 immigration rights advocates gathered in Glendale Monday for a planned march toward the University of Phoenix Stadium - site of Monday night's national college football championship game between Ohio State and Florida - even though they don't have a permit.

Kicking off an event calling for immigration reform, religious leaders and business and community members gathered in east Mesa as part of a national movement.

Even as states were seeking to enact tougher immigration laws, Border Patrol agents in the southern U.S. saw an increase in the number of children attempting to enter the country from Mexico — many unaccompanied.

In anticipation of the 2012 Olympics, VisitBritain, the UK's government-funded tourism agency, is providing tips on how to greet people from abroad.

A 12-year-old Queen Creek Middle School student who was caught with a loaded handgun Wednesday at the school may lose his parents and his home - after authorities determined his family is in the country illegally.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has signed an executive order requiring contractors and others who do business with the federal government to make sure their employees can legally work in the U.S.

The Arizona Senate on Thursday voted 18-11 to ask voters to deny subsidized child care and adult education classes to those who entered this country illegally.

The Arizona Senate on Thursday voted 18-11 to ask voters to deny subsidized child care and adult education classes to those who entered this country illegally.

Jose de la Isla

Well it seems that there are at least four — maybe five or six — U.S. Supreme Court justices who believe that our good state of Arizona’s SB 1070 statute, if not 100 percent legal under the U.S. Constitution, is half right, anyway.

In 2008, one-time Valley resident Henry Cejudo became the youngest American Olympic wrestling gold medalist. His story of realizing a dream against all odds is on stage Friday, March 16 at Arizona State University in Tempe, with plenty of wrestling action along the way.