The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will station an aerial drone in Texas as part of its stepped-up surveillance of criminal trafficking along the Mexican border

Washington (CNN) -- Congress should proceed on immigration reform while the administration strengthens security at the southwestern border, a top U.S. official said Wednesday. \"The border is as secure now as it\'s ever been,\" said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. \"You\'re never going to totally seal the border.\"

With his approval rating plunging, along with the economy and faced with growing criticism for the lack of federal enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, Obama knows that there will be no vote before November, on so-called ‘comprehensive immigration reform,’ (amnesty for illegal aliens).

LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration is asking Congress for money to expand the Border Patrol by 1,000 agents, add scores of other federal law enforcement officers and deploy two more aerial drones as part of heightened security at the Mexican border.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer could face a federal challenge to the law she signed as early as next week. Attorney General Eric Holder is preparing to file a lawsuit within the week, ABC News reported.

Frustration with the federal government\'s failure to curb illegal immigration is growing. Arizona\'s new law targeting people without documents for deportation got the world\'s attention when Gov. Jan Brewer signed the legislation in April. But a special election Monday in Fremont, Neb., a few hours\' drive west of Des Moines, also should tell the president and Congress they must finally act.

Mexico joined the fight against Arizona\'s controversial immigration law by filing an amicus brief Tuesday with the U.S. District Court asking that SB1070 be declared unconstitutional. A few hours later, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s office issued a response lamenting Mexico’s actions.

As the effective date of Arizona\'s new immigration law nears, new concerns are being raised by municipal officials about how to effectively enforce it without creating a legal and financial quagmire. At a public forum Tuesday, two southeast Valley mayors said the law could boomerang on its authors by actually reducing immigration enforcement because of its rigid legal requirements.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and other GOP leaders are coming under pressure from the Republican grass roots to make Arizona’s immigration law a national campaign issue. GOP and conservative activists see the lawsuit the administration is considering against Arizona’s tough new law as a tool to spike turnout by Republicans and independents at the polls.

In Fremont , a meat-packing town of about 25,000 people, unofficial results from The Associated Press late Monday showed that 57 percent of voters approved a referendum barring landlords from renting to those in the country illegally, requiring renters to provide information to the police and to obtain city occupancy licenses, and obliging city businesses to use a federal database to check for illegal immigrants.

Immigration Tim Bridgewater » \"It\'s a system that rewards people who break the law,\" the businessman and two-time congressional candidate says. \"We have to change that dynamic.\" He opposes any \"amnesty\" or earned citizenship and supports strengthening the border fence, as well as using satellite imagery and other high-tech options for border enforcement. The system of legal immigration needs to be streamlined, he said, and the government should be able to approve citizenship applications in a year or less, instead of the five years he said it currently takes

Both Democratic candidates running for the 2nd Congressional District say Congress — not individual states — should take on illegal immigration. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, said the law recently enacted in Arizona, which allows police to use race as a probable cause to question people, is a bad idea. \"It is an emotional and irrational response,\" he said. \"This is a federal issue.\"

Soccer fans in Nevada watching the World Cup on Univision are suddenly seeing a lot of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is flooding the Spanish-language station with an ad campaign courting Latinos, who could help save his uphill reelection campaign.

Mexican nationals have long traveled to Arizona cities like Tucson on bi-annual shopping expeditions. But these days, Arizona\'s new immigration law is dissuading them from visiting the state malls.

The second starting point was Jesus. His teaching on the kingdom of God points to a radically different way of living, one that turns upside down many of the assumptions we make about life. As God begins to reign on earth, the poor receive good news and the oppressed are set free. Those who suffer in this life will be blessed

Sheriff Joe Arpaio\'s announcement that he will mark the dawn of Arizona\'s new immigration law next month with a crime-suppression operation should catch nobody by surprise. Arpaio has been one of the most vocal supporters of the law. And he has made headlines for more than two years with his controversial immigration sweeps, typically placing dozens of deputies in neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations and ordering them to stop anyone for any violation.