PHOENIX, Ariz.—Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has found himself at the center of yet another controversy, but this time the issue is not illegal immigration. A county budget report made public Wednesday accused his department of misspending as much as $80 million on immigration sweeps, public-corruption probes, and a range of other unauthorized activities and expenditures over the past five years.

Republican senators Tuesday used their slim 41-vote plurality to block passage of a military appropriations bill to which Harry Reid and his Democrats had grafted various unpopular measures, including the \"Dream Act,\" a thinly disguised push toward full illegal immigrant amnesty.

Repealing or rewriting the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution will do little if anything at all to resolve the pressing and very complex issue of illegal immigration in this nation.

Standing above a crowd of protestors outside the Lloyd George Federal Building, 18-year-old Claudia Anaya was mid-sentence when she suddenly began to cry. For a moment, the crowd that had previously been shouting through bullhorns and eliciting honks from passing motorists fell silent.

WASHINGTON - The Dream Act has died again. On Tuesday, yet another attempt to push through the 9-year-old legislation was derailed. The measure, introduced in 2001 by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., would let children of illegal immigrants become legal residents if they attend college or serve in the U.S. military.

Republican lawmakers on Tuesday stalled a Senate measure to allow children of undocumented immigrants to get on a path to citizenship, and accused the Obama administration of seeking amnesty for illegal immigrants through administrative changes within the Department of Homeland Security.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) announced last week he would tack on the DREAM Act on to a defense appropriations bill. A cloture vote on the act is expected this afternoon. The DREAM Act grants amnesty to illegal aliens who claim they came to this country before the age of 16 and also claim they will join the military or enroll in college.

The Senate will consider Tuesday whether hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children should be placed on a path to citizenship. The controversial measure is being pushed by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who bypassed usual Senate procedures by including it in a defense reauthorization bill.

Like thousands of other young Americans, Yves Gomes started college this semester. But few of his new classmates realized that Gomes almost didn’t make it. Though he sounds like any other American teenager, 17-year-old Yves is not American in the strictest legal sense. His parents, immigrants from India and Bangladesh, were never able to regularize their status in the United States.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and he has firsthand knowledge of that — because they fix his house. Powell, a moderate Republican, urged his party Sunday to support immigration generally because it is “what’s keeping this country’s lifeblood moving forward.”

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and he has firsthand knowledge of that — because they fix his house. Powell, a moderate Republican, urged his party Sunday to support immigration generally because it is \"what\'s keeping this country\'s lifeblood moving forward.\"

Sometimes it takes restating the obvious to break people free of their rabid misconceptions. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell did just that this weekend on a Sunday morning news show by imploring his fellow Republicans to return to common sense about immigration reform and find a way to bring millions of hard-working illegal immigrants into legal status, because they are an integral and vital part of the U.S. economy.

So now Kris Kobach’s campaign has degenerated into expecting props for merely floating dreams of rewriting the U.S. Constitution. Last week the candidate for Kansas secretary of state gave a prime example of the contorted language of politics. Claim what you will do for future constituents, regardless of your ability to produce a result.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will introduce the so-called DREAM Act, a key component of immigration reform, as an amendment to a defense authorization bill as early as Tuesday. Doing so will throw down a gauntlet. Democrats and Republicans alike will have to choose between what is right for the nation and what might appease its angriest elements.

Support is mounting for efforts in Congress to stop granting birthright — that is, automatic — citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants. Such a measure would bring America\'s citizenship policies into line with those of most of the rest of the world, where even the children of legal noncitizens do not automatically become citizens of the country where they are born.

OGDEN — Wesley Smith likes to read to his kids at night. Among the stories they read are Aesop\'s fables, those of the talking animals that come to various conclusions about life lessons. In the story of the mice and the cat, a group of mice is trying to figure out how not to be killed by the cat.