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.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Friday at a public forum that the proposed bill by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom targeting illegal immigration “can’t be fixed” entirely to comply with the U.S. Constitution and urged lawmakers to avoid Arizona’s legal difficulties. However, he cautioned, in absence of alternatives, he expected the Sandstrom bill would obtain easy passage.

The Constitution and Supreme Court decisions are clear: Immigration authority is federal. States can complement federal law, but they cannot assume control. Even copying federal law into state law can violate the Supremacy Clause and federal pre-emption.

In court decision after court decision the Federal government is assumed to have the exclusive authority to determine immigration policies and states such as Arizona are said to seek to usurp the powers of Congress to regulate immigration. However this is not true and all courts limiting states in this regard are simply wrong.

Obama appealed to Hispanics on Wednesday, encouraging them to vote for his party in mid-term elections and blaming Republicans for the standing in the way of reform. “Don\'t forget who is standing with you,” he said as he pledged to keep fighting for reforms of US immigration laws relating to border security and illegal immigration.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has crafted a strategem he hopes will help him pass an immigration bill and score political points at the same time. He’s announced he’s attaching the DREAM Act—which offers a path to citizenship for children who are brought into the country illegally but attend college or serve in the military

San Diego, California (CNN) -- The single most divisive immigration reform proposal out there isn\'t what you think it is. It isn\'t what restrictionists call \"amnesty\" -- what the rest of us, who can think beyond sound bites, understand to be earned legal status for illegal immigrants. That concept gets the headlines, but it\'s not the one splitting allies down the middle in the immigration reform community.

Arizona has spent the last several months binging on a cocktail of nativism and fear with a splash of political expediency. Now comes the hangover. It has been several weeks since I was last here in Phoenix, the nation\'s fifth-largest city, as part of the media contingent that descended for a quick lesson about how not to address the immigration issue

Organizers of Tuesday evening\'s town hall meeting hoped the event would help ease tensions between federal immigration officials and members of the Hispanic community who were aggravated by recent raids at valley bus stations. But the roughly hourlong event appeared to do little but further polarize the two sides.

The Obama administration has begun implementing a backdoor amnesty through selective enforcement of U.S. immigration law. A leaked internal memorandum from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) -- part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -- entitled “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform” revealed a series of “deferred action” plans to sidestep legislative requirements.

Salt Lake City, Utah — A small circle of protesters hovered about 500 feet from the rally at the foot of the marble steps leading to Utah\'s state Capitol, singing the civil rights anthem \"We Shall Overcome\" and carrying signs that read \"Who would Jesus deport?\" But it was state Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, champion of anti-illegal immigration legislation for four years running, who attracted the larger crowd, horseshoed around him.

WASHINGTON - Immigration officials now plan to incarcerate illegal aliens when they\'re arrested for drunken driving, WTOP has learned. \"The message has gone out to the field offices: Take them into custody, and don\'t let them out on bond,\" a high-ranking source within ICE tells WTOP.

Hazleton, Pa. is among several localities that enacted anti-immigration ordinances in the absence of a comprehensive Federal reform. However, a new court decision has ruled that approach unconstitutional. On Sept. 9, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that matters pertaining to immigration regulation are \"clearly within the exclusive domain of the Federal government.\"

West Valley City • Residents know the city has police and fire chiefs, but rarely get to spend in-person time talk to them. Until now. In an effort to help the community get to know some city officials better, West Valley City organized its first Chief Chat, a free public meeting for residents to meet Police Chief Thayle “Buzz” Nielsen and Fire Chief John Evans.

PHOENIX - Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, is thinking about making a policy change when it comes to when law enforcement will detain someone suspected of being in the country illegally.

On paper, Christine Mastin looks like the perfect Democratic candidate to represent Denver\'s Washington Park neighborhood in the legislature. Her father was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s who met her mother in Chile. Mastin grew up speaking Spanish and now is an immigration attorney. But here\'s the catch: Mastin is the Republican candidate in House District 3, which also includes all of Cherry Hills Village and Englewood\'s eastern side.