A California judge blocked a lawsuit that sought to enlist Los Angeles police officers in weeding out illegal immigrants on the ground that such a policy conflicted with Federal and State law.

Authorities are devoting more time and money to identify illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles County jail. The Sheriff's Department is using $500,000 to expand inmate screening and increase the number of staff who conduct interviews from eight to 13.

In recent years, more than 10,000 inmates at the jail have been referred to federal authorities for possible deportation.

Three West Coast mayors are asking the leaders of other cities to  take a stand against workplace immigration raids that they say hurt local economies and may force companies to relocate

  Frustrated by a steady flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into  Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to take matters into his own hands once again like he is the damn federal government. Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff's deputies into Hispanic communities where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident.

These are the positions of the junior Senator from Illinois and our   presumptive nominee on immigration issues.

The time as come a  national organization is boycotting CNN and commentator Lou Dobbs because of his "irresponsible assertions" on immigration, concerns activists in Manatee County point to as reason they flip past the network.

The Hispanic Institute organized the protest against Dobbs, who regularly advocates for securing U.S. borders and speaks out against immigrants living illegally in the United States.

Well not exactly.......... But Bill Clinton has been Sen. Hillary Clinton's biggest booster in her presidential bid, but is now campaigning for a new job for his wife vice president, I would be sure happy to see this dream ticket if he chooses her,Do you think we are looking at our next president and vice president here?

Sweeping immigration reform legislation will be approved by the U.S. House by this time next year, no matter who is elected president in November, U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, predicted yesterday.

A Dallas suburb's ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by the city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday. Only the federal government can regulated immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.

Senator Barack Obama last week told a Florida crowd that Lou Dobbs contributed to a rise in hate crimes in this country. And as the primary season comes to a close at a fundraiser closed to cameras in Florida Thursday night the senator again took aim at Lou, saying quote, 'There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year. If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it's not surprising that would happen,'" CNN's Bill Tucker said.

Hundreds of legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona are being sent back to their home countries, sometimes against their will, for medical treatment because they lack insurance.

In some cases, the FBI and police, responding to allegations of kidnapping, have been called in to halt such forcible removals, according to patients' lawyers.

When John McCain’s presidential campaign faltered badly last summer, there were a variety of problems, but near the top of the list was McCain’s work on a comprehensive immigration reform measure, which most Republican activists hated with a vengeance. McCain ultimately decided to abandon his own legislation, and announced earlier this year that he wouldn’t even vote for his own bill.
Now that he’s locked down the Republican nomination, McCain has decided to reverse course again, re-embracing the position he abandoned in order to gain GOP support.
In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders here today that comprehensive immigration reform should be a top priority for the next president.
Mr. McCain’s willingness to address the issue was striking given how the topic became something of a third-rail for Republican presidential candidates during the primary. [...]
Mr. McCain largely stopped talking about the issue and repeatedly invoked a mantra that he had gotten the message from voters that the borders needed to be secured first, before any solution for the illegal immigrants already here is addressed.

I will do whatever it takes, by all legal means to see to it that John Mccain does not become President of this country!

      Phoenix Police may now contact ICE when they suspect a persn to be in the country illegally, a shift in policy that is expected to increase the number of illegal immigrants deported from the state. Under the new policy everyone arrested in Phoenix will be questioned about his or her citizenship. If an officer makes contact with someone who did not commit a crime but is still believed to be in the country illegally, the officer can give ICE that person's contact information over the phone or via a one page form.

      With restaurants and resorts facng summer shortages, the Bush administration will announce federal regulations today to streamline the way foreign workers enter the United States for seasonal jobs. The rules being rewritten relate to helping employers find and hire workers for temporary jobs as landscapers, waitresses and crab pickers more efficiently than current guidelines allow. One major change affecting construction and shipyards will be the definition of "temporary" which will be drastically expanded from the current 10 months to 3 years.

Democrats are criticizing a recent government work-site raid targeted at illegal employees, asserting that the action separated parents from their children and devastated the local community.

Witnesses at a House Education and Labor subcommittee hearing  yesterday testified that a May 12 operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, Iowa, left hundreds of children in the lurch as their parents disappeared.

Arizona Govenor Janet Napolitano ordered the state to end an anti-illegal immigration contract with a high-profile sheriff last week so she can pay for a larger effort to track down thousands of felons around Arizona.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio criticized the governor's decision as a maneuver to thwart his efforts against illegal immigrants. "Dirty politics are at work right now," Arpaio said at a news conference.

      California's most immigrant dependent industries, agriculture and Silicon Valley, are pushing narrow measures through Congress in an effort to employ foreign workers at opposite ends of the labor market, people who pick vegetables and the post graduate engineers and scientists of Silicon Valley.  Senator Dianne Feinstein attached a farm guest worker program to the giant Iraq spending bill Thursday in a last ditch effort to remedy a shortage of workers in California's produce fields as the Federal Government continues to crack down on illegal immigration and the political climate proves hostile to more sweeping measures.  Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, teaming with Republicans, is pushing several bills to give permanent residence to top engineering talent.