WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 10 years have passed since she gave up her pursuit of a degree in computer science, but Yajahira Deaza still has regrets. She says she feels incomplete. She now works in customer service for a major New York bank, and her experience reflects the findings of an Associated Press-Univision poll that examined the attitudes of Latino adults toward higher education. Despite strong belief in the value of a college diploma, Hispanics more often than not fall short of that goal.

PHOENIX (AP) - States that had been watching Arizona\'s immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama administration\'s core argument that immigration enforcement is the role of the federal government.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The Arizona immigration law that took effect at midnight is a mere shadow of its former self. Federal Judge Susan Bolton blocked some of the law\'s more controversial provisions. Still, the question remains, what are the implications of this new law for Utahns?

Discussion of what Utah should do to address the state’s immigration issues focused on two options during Gov. Gary Herbert’s immigration summit last week: Arizona-style enforcement or a Utah-specific guest worker card. But it was Lt. Gov. Greg Bell, an attorney, who got to the heart of the matter: “I’m very intrigued about this guest worker idea, but is there any system that Utah could adopt for allowing guest worker status … without a federal action taking place?”

PHOENIX (AP) -- States that had been watching Arizona\'s immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama administration\'s core argument that immigration enforcement is the role of the federal government.

While accurate numbers are hard to find, most estimates put the number of foreign-born residents in Georgia at nearly 1 million — the ninth-largest immigrant segment in the United States. Perhaps half of those, various estimates say, are here illegally — more than the total number in Arizona, where a new state law aimed at reducing the number of illegal immigrants is set to take effect today.

Requiring police officers to attempt to check the immigration status of those they have stopped if there is reason to suspect they are in the U.S. illegally. Why: \"Legal residents will certainly be swept up by this requirement,\" and \"their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked.\" Forbidding police to release anyone they have arrested until that person\'s immigration status is determined.

SALT LAKE CITY — Another employee in the Utah Department of Workforce Services has been identified as the second state worker under suspicion in the distribution of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants. Government officials familiar with the investigation identified the worker Tuesday as Leah Carson. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

It may sound like a silly joke, but do you know how to tell if a Latino was born in the United States or foreign-born? The answer may be to look at how often they go online or use cell phones. U.S.-native Latinos do it much more than foreign-born Hispanics — with assimilation and English skills apparently leading to more use of technology.

Editors Note • The quotations from the letters to the Governor’s Office are reproduced in the story as they were written. The Tribune has not changed the words for spelling, punctuation or grammar, with the exception of deleting an expletive in one instance. An anti-immigrant fury was unleashed on Gov. Gary Herbert last week, as scores of people berated the governor for firing two women suspected of compiling a list of hundreds of supposed undocumented immigrants and praised the women as heroes and patriots.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A state lawmaker hoping to bring an \"Arizona-style\" immigration law to Utah says the version of the bill released to the media this week is a phony. When Rep. Steven Sandstrom first heard a version of his bill had been leaked, he thought someone may have broken into his home or office. But after hearing what was in the documents, he says he\'s confident this is a phony.

\"But the Diamondbacks are ambassadors of their state.\" The law authorizes Arizona police who are making routine enforcement stops and who have a \"reasonable suspicion\" that a person is in the country illegally to ask for proof of the person\'s immigration status. This law comes courtesy of a state originally settled by Indians and Mexicans. A state that owes its very name to a Spanish version of the Aztec word \"Arizuma,\" which means \"silver-bearing.\"

Arizona\'s damaging new immigration law is set to take effect Thursday. If that happens, police officers will be given broad new authority to apprehend illegal immigrants, Latinos will almost certainly find themselves subject to increased racial profiling, and the state will have resorted to a harsh and unfair policy to solve a problem that requires a nuanced and comprehensive approach.

PHOENIX — The sheriff of Arizona\'s most populous county is making room in a vast outdoor jail and determined to round up illegal immigrants to fill it. Police from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Grand Canyon are getting last-minute training. And protests and marches are planned throughout Phoenix. Arizona\'s new immigration law takes effect Thursday, creating a potentially volatile mix of police, illegal immigrants and thousands of activists, many planning to show up without identification as a show of solidarity.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News ) - ABC 4 now learned the name of the second suspect in \"The List\" investigation. A source close to that investigation tells ABC 4 this is the other Workforce Services employee suspected of helping to create “The List\" of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants.

Two weeks ago, someone anonymously sent the news media the now-infamous list of 1,300 supposed illegal immigrants in Utah. On Monday, someone anonymously sent an authentic-looking copy of what was purported to be state Sen. Steve Sandstrom\'s much-anticipated \"Arizona-style\" immigration bill — with many new and bizarre twists for Utah.