One of Theodore Roosevelt\'s most memorable speeches praised \"the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who spends himself in a worthy cause.\" The person who deserves even more praise is the one who climbs into the arena to take on a fight that doesn\'t impact him directly but who engages it anyway because it\'s the right thing to do.

President Barack Obama says he agrees that more control must be exerted over illegal immigration, but he won\'t accept \"a patchwork of 50 different states\" acting on their own.

A few weeks ago, Steve Sandstrom thought he had escaped on a 20th anniversary cruise with his wife. Alas, he couldn\'t dodge the hot-button issue he has chosen as his own: immigration. \"This whole immigration thing has taken over my entire life,\" the Orem lawmaker said.

Facing an $18 billion state funding crisis that has already required deep cuts in agency budgets, the last thing Texas needs is a legislative season in 2011 paralyzed by a fight over an Arizona-style immigration law. Until federal judge Susan Bolton issued an injunction last week suspending the law\'s most controversial provisions, such a debilitating conflict in Austin next spring seemed inevitable.

RICHMOND -- Virginia Republicans who had backed away from the hot-button topic of illegal immigration the past couple of years, concerned that the hard-line approach could backfire at the ballot box, are embracing the issue once again.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R) says America faces a new and growing foreign threat: illegal immigrants and tourists who come to here for the express purpose of giving birth so their children obtain citizenship.

SALT LAKE CITY — The state government suddenly has a huge trust problem with Latinos, members of the Governor\'s Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council warned on Thursday. That isn\'t surprising, since the state acknowledges that two rogue Department of Workforce Services employees compiled a list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants from its databases and distributed it publicly. But what may be surprising is what some Hispanics think the state is doing now after release of the list.

A letter from the Department of Workforce Services sheds new light on the genesis of “the list” of 1,300 purportedly undocumented immigrants and the role two state employees allegedly played in compiling and distributing the data.

The attorney for one of the women accused of inappropriately accessing the personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants said Wednesday that his client denies any wrongdoing.

Rather than shout, I\'ll just ask the question in a civil way: Dear Republicans, do you really want to endanger your party\'s greatest political legacy by turning the 14th Amendment to our Constitution into an excuse for election-year ugliness?

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Workforce Services said Wednesday it hopes to earn back the trust it lost when two former workers compiled and distributed a now-infamous list of 1,300 alleged illegal aliens. Advocates for minorities and the poor, the two primary groups DWS serves, said the state agency has a long way to go — and reported that many illegal-immigrant parents are now too scared to seek assistance for their U.S.-born children out of fear doing so may lead to deportation. And others are so worried they are considering not sending children to school, advocates say.

With newfound prominence as the author of a law that ignited a national firestorm over immigration, the Arizona state senator hopes to keep fanning the flames of the issue long after the courts uphold or strike down SB 1070.

Proponents of tougher immigration enforcement have seized on the case of a Bolivian man charged with killing a nun and critically injuring two others while driving drunk as a symbol of a badly broken immigration system. Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano, 23, who entered the United States illegally at age 8 with his parents and sister, has been awaiting a deportation hearing after two convictions for drunken driving in 2007 and 2008

Before The Fence, before the 12th Amendment, before Arizona, there were the First Illegal Immigrants....

A growing chorus of congressional Republicans is calling for a review of the birthright citizenship protection provided by the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. But, as Politico first noted today, the Republican Party is at the same time still touting itself as the party of the 14th Amendment on its official website.

The Justice Department on Tuesday notified an Arizona sheriff’s office known for its efforts against illegal immigrants that it has refused to cooperate with a civil rights investigation, is not in compliance with federal law and the department is threatening to sue.