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.\"

Immigrants convicted of minor drug offenses should not face automatic deportation, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, a decision that could allow thousands of legal immigrants the chance to argue for leniency from immigration judges

Utah continued to become more ethnically and racially diverse last year, according to Census Bureau estimates released Thursday, and Latinos grew to account for 12 percent of the population. The state\'s share of white, non-Latino residents slipped to 81 percent in 2009, down from 85 percent in 2000. So minorities made up nearly a fifth of Utah\'s population last year -- and a quarter of Salt Lake County\'s.

West Valley City » A public safety organization honored Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank Thursday for his opposition to mandates that would make police officers enforce U.S. immigration law. Burbank has publicly spoken against Utah lawmakers considering a measure similar to the Arizona law that requires police to verify the legal status of anyone reasonably suspected of being in the country without proper U.S. documentation.

With dreams of a doctorate degree in educational psychology, Bryan Hotchkins brought his wife and two children to Utah from Oklahoma City in 2008. \"I got into the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State,\" he said. \"But neither one of those higher ed programs have teaching assistantships. My logic is, how can I learn to be a professor without a teaching assistantship?\"

If you\'ve been following this blog series on illegal immigration, or if you\'ve been listening to Christians talk about this issue, then you know there is a wide array of opinions, many of which are contradictory. Consider, for example, the question of whether people who are in this country illegally should be deported.

AUSTIN – The Texas Republican Party already eschews any shade of gray in its red, white and blue platform on immigration: It begins: \"No amnesty! No how. No way.\"

Here\'s what I want you to do tomorrow. During the course of your normal day, pay extra attention to your surroundings, more specifically to the people around you. Observe the people that drive or walk by; the people in stores you shop at; the people that work at your job; the people that attend your school. Observe each of these people and then decide whether or not they \"belong\" in America.

But the issue most damaging for Whitman and Fiorina is immigration. Pressed by their GOP primary opponents and the Republican electorate to endorse Arizona\'s draconian new law, Fiorina proclaimed her support for it while Whitman countered the charges from her right that she was soft on immigration by affirming that she was \"100 percent against amnesty\" and demanding a huge increase in border enforcement.

The LDS Church should issue a definitive position on state laws, such as Arizona\'s, that allows non-federal law enforcement to request citizenship identification under certain conditions. It it does not, it risks being defined on the issue without its own input by extremists on both sides. Utah activist Tony Yapias, who runs the advocacy group Proyecto Latino de Utah, is urging Mormon Hispanics to write letters to LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson requesting that the church take a position on laws that crack down on illegal immigration, such as Arizona\'s law that allows police, if they have reason, to check the immigration status of people on the street.

Though not uniformly opposed to a proposed change to Utah\'s food stamp rules that would negatively effect households with undocumented workers, advocates for the poor want to know, \"Why this change? And why now?\" The question, posed at a hearing Tuesday, met with no answer from Utah Department of Workforce Services officials, who said the hearing was for public input only. But outside the hearing, Workforce Services spokesman Curt Stewart said the change was prompted by complaints by people who say the current rules in inequitable.

Schools in Hispanic areas report unusual drops in enrollment. The Balsz Elementary School District is 75% Hispanic, and within a month of the law\'s passage, the parents of 70 students pulled them out of school, said District Superintendent Jeffrey Smith.

PHOENIX -- In the seven weeks since Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona\'s tough new immigration law, there has been a sharp increase in the number of Latinos registering to vote as Democrats, party officials say, jumping from about 100 a week before to 500 now.

In addition, immigrants (legal and illegal) pay sales taxes on their purchases in sales tax localities; they pay the landlord\'s property taxes as a portion of their rent; they pay the various fees and taxes on gasoline, utilities, telephone and similar services. Last, but not least, the effects of the money they earn and spend is multiplied as it circulates through the economy. This generates income to others, the net profit from which is taxable.

Looks like we still have a little trouble on our borders. We also have trouble with our language. It seems many illegal immigrants do not want to learn English, and our politicians do not understand what the English word \"illegal\" means.

The issue of undocumented immigration is a modern day Rorschach test. There is little change in the issue itself but opinions differ tremendously depending on individual perspectives. Each believes his or her opinion is a factual representation of the truth, but how one views the issue of immigration, like the Rorschach inkblots, is more telling of the person than of the issue itself.