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.

SAN DIEGO — Angry over my criticism of hateful legislative tantrums such as Arizona\'s new law to ferret out illegal immigrants, some readers have demanded to know my solution to America\'s immigration problem.

The amendment was adopted after the Civil War to define who is a citizen of the U.S. The amendment in effect overruled the Supreme Court\'s ruling in the 1857 Dred Scott case that denied citizenship to blacks. In part, the law states that any person born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen and \"no state shall make or enforce any law\" denying that righ

Contrary to popular opinion, America does not have an immigration problem, but its current policies are creating one. In particular, America remains an attractive destination for immigrants, a boon for this nation. However, America is rapidly losing its competitive advantage in attracting immigrants to our shores. The loss to America, and its standing in the world, will be catastrophic.

State Rep. Randy Terrill recently bought a new $223,000 house despite having an active personal bankruptcy, records show. Terrill, R-Moore, was targeted in a political corruption investigation earlier this month. Terrill and his wife bought the Moore house in April. They borrowed $218,528 from IBC Bank, according to Cleveland County records.

West Valley City » Four out of ten West Valley City residents are ethnic minorities, but they are not represented on the city council, its boards and commissions, or in Neighborhood Watch groups. Craig Thomas, the city\'s neighborhood services manager, attends many city-sponsored public events and meetings, including the annual Neighborhood Watch block parties. Most of the time, he said, 99 percent of the attendees are white.

Amadou Niang, president of United Africans of Utah, says it has taken years for his now 13-year-old son to be accepted by the kids in his mostly white neighborhood. \"The only way to break down barriers and get over stereotypes is by giving people a chance,\" Niang said. \"Approach that person with a blank slate. Let them show you what they can do.\"

Emboldened by passage of the nation\'s toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents. Legal scholars laugh out loud at Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce\'s proposal and warn that it would be blatantly unconstitutional, since the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

An undocumented Harvard University student is facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, the student said Friday. Eric Balderas, 19, who just completed his first year at Harvard, said he was detained Monday by immigration authorities when he tried to board a plane from his hometown of San Antonio to Boston using a consulate card from Mexico and his student ID.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will realign its duties to promote criminal investigations over immigrant deportation, officials have announced. By streamlining and renaming several offices, officials hope to highlight the agency\'s counterterrorism, money laundering and other complex criminal investigations and in the process \"re-brand\" ICE, turning the public -- and political -- spotlight away from its immigration work.

WASHINGTON — A single tablet of an anti-anxiety drug got Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo 10 days in jail in Harris County and a quick deportation to his native Mexico. Too quick, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court said Monday in a ruling that could affect thousands of legal immigrants who face deportation over minor criminal records.

Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court blocked the government Tuesday from deporting legal immigrants for minor drug possession charges, ruling that only serious or violent crimes called for removing otherwise law-abiding people from this country.

Arizona\'s new immigration law is logical but cruel. Public support of the law is understandable: The federal government has dropped the ball on immigration and someone must act. But should government act in this way? The Arizona proposal certainly was rushed: Within a week of passage, the Legislature amended the text in the face of widespread criticism touching on racism, xenophobia, constitutionality and the essence of America as a nation of immigrants. Words such as \"Gestapo\" and \"bigots\" were not uncommon.

Arizona\'s new immigration law has yet to take effect, but it\'s already been somewhat effective in driving undocumented immigrants from the state. Jeff Tyler reports.

The Republican governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, calls her state \"the gateway to America for drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and crime.\" She blames the federal government for failing to secure the border with Mexico. Her Democratic predecessor, Janet Napolitano, now the country\'s Homeland Security secretary, counters that the Southwestern border \"is as secure now as it has ever been.\"

In a television advertisement airing in Arizona, John McCain, running for a fifth term in the Senate, strolls through the desert near Nogales with Paul Babeu, sheriff of Pinal County. Beside the two men rises a section of the border fence that the Department of Homeland Security has been erecting to keep undocumented Mexicans in Mexico. \"We\'re outmanned,\" Mr. Babeu tells the senator, who nods knowingly. \"Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona.\"