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.

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah lawmaker writing an immigration bill modeled after Arizona\'s tough new law said Tuesday his bill won\'t include some of the provisions that a federal judge blocked last week. Rep. Stephen Sandstrom told The Associated Press that his bill won\'t make it illegal to solicit employment in public places. That was a major component of the Arizona law aimed at day laborers that U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked.

WASHINGTON — Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment right, although he emphasized that Washington\'s immigration focus should remain on border security.

\"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.\" That\'s the first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and there is a movement afoot to strike it.

(AP) 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. Since March 2009, the U.S. Justice Department has been investigating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio\'s office in Phoenix for alleged discrimination and for unconstitutional searches and seizures. Arpaio says the inquiry is focused on his immigration efforts.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has demanded a review of why federal immigration authorities released an illegal immigrant after a drunken-driving arrest in 2008 and who now has been charged with manslaughter stemming for a suspected drunken-driving crash that killed a Catholic nun this weekend.

Normally, when I write from the road, I\'m careful not to forget my pens, notepads and laptop. But this time, as a Mexican-American heading to Arizona, I made sure I also had my passport. Just in case. Even though U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton got it right last week when she issued a temporary injunction against the most egregious parts of the state\'s tough immigration law, what was left of the legislation went into effect. The state is appealing Bolton\'s ruling, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals isn\'t scheduled to hear the case until November.

SOUTH GATE, Calif. — Pete Wilson, a former Republican governor reviled by many Latinos here, promised in a May advertisement that Meg Whitman would be as “tough as nails” on illegal immigration. On Wednesday, less than two months after she won the GOP primary, her campaign for governor will debut a warm-and-fuzzy Spanish-language ad pledging something different — a plan to create jobs for Latinos.

Some of the harshest measures of Arizona”s controversial immigration law have been halted by an injunction. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton forbade the state from requiring police officers to check the immigration status of those they stop or arrest. Thus begins what promises to be a protracted fight in federal courts.

PHOENIX - The Obama administration is deporting more illegal immigrants than ever before. Statistics compiled at Syracuse University challenge criticism by Republicans, including Gov. Jan Brewer, that federal authorities are failing to deal with the problem.

The federal judge who struck down most of Arizona’s new immigration law last week wasn’t trying to strike a blow for immigrants’ rights, about which her ruling said little. She wasn’t dictating what immigration laws should look like or how strict they should be. She was making a much more fundamental argument, one that has regularly emerged in America’s long and often ugly history in dealing with noncitizens and other vulnerable minorities.

Whoever wins this fall’s Kansas secretary of state race will determine where the office stands in the debate over whether voters must show photo identification at the polls. The two winners of Tuesday’s primary — Republican Kris Kobach and Democrat Chris Biggs — are on opposite sides of a hot topic within the illegal immigration debate.

West Valley City • For one Guatemalan father, the differences in citizenship among his seven children is like the border between their good and bad health. A son who is a U.S. citizen receives a doctor’s careful attention after hitting his head. His undocumented older sister with unexplained growths in her mouth goes without.

Arizona wasn\'t always known for its harsh policies against illegal immigration, say Anna Gorman and Nicholas Riccardi in the Los Angeles Times. Just six years ago, \"this border state was among the nation\'s most welcoming of illegal immigrants.\"

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Undocumented immigrants could face arrest at the border when they try to leave the United States, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service says. Spokeswoman Bonnie Arellano said when border agents discover illegal immigrants trying to leave, they are not simply ushered across the line, USA Today reported Tuesday.

The judge blocked key provisions of the controversial law that would have made it a crime for undocumented immigrants to work and would have mandated warrantless arrests of all suspected illegals. It would have also required police officers to investigate the immigration status of any individual they suspected of having entered the US illegally and to detain individuals arrested for even minor non-detainable offences if they were without papers.