SALT LAKE CITY — A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a Weber State University student whose attorneys allege was unjustifiably and illegally imprisoned in the Salt Lake County Jail 39 days after he had posted court-ordered bail.

A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Friday alleging that the Salt Lake County Jail unlawfully held an alleged undocumented immigrant for 39 days after he posted court-ordered bail.

West Valley City • The hot button issue of immigration has reached the City Council — again. Last year, two council members informally suggested at a study meeting that the city be required to verify that applicants for business licenses are citizens or legal residents. The discussion did not lead to any action.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Birmingham, is the third major legal challenge to the Alabama law, which would, among other things, make it illegal for undocumented immigrants to apply for work, require law enforcement to determine the legal status of people they arrest, transport or “conceal” undocumented people in the state, and force public schools to determine the citizenship status of their students.

The suit, filed in Alabama\'s Northern District, marks the second time the Obama administration has sought to block a state immigration reform law. Last year, the Justice Department filed a similar challenge to Arizona\'s controversial SB 1070. A federal judge decided to temporarily block key parts of that law, including a provision that would have required police to determine suspects\' immigration status.

This guy openly supports illegal aliens. I’ve been watching him on the news for years. Tonight he’s totally in the face of Teresa Bassett who published a list of illegal aliens. He kept saying, “you know you are a felon right!”.

The contest between the political parties for the Latino vote in the 2012 election is now well underway. It started in May when President Obama went to El Paso with a suitcase full of contradictions. Posing in front of a border wall, he assured a largely Latino crowd that he was enforcing immigration laws that require illegal immigrants to be deported while still committed to changing those laws so that more of them could stay.

SANTA FE - After seven months in office, Gov. Susana Martinez is about to enter the national spotlight for a policy decision on the explosive issue of immigration. Martinez, a Republican, is in the midst of ordering 10,000 people to appear in Albuquerque to document that they are New Mexico residents. Some of them are illegal immigrants. Others could be U.S. citizens. All are in a pool that the state Motor Vehicle Division refers to as its database of \"foreign national\" drivers.

A few days earlier we had snuck into Mexico without a visa. Before we left India, we had approached the embassy in Delhi which said our passports needed to go to Mexico City and it could take weeks. With only two months to go, it seemed uncertain if we would get our passports back in time, and we didn\'t want to jeopardise the rest of our trip. Indian friends in the US said they routinely got their visas at the border crossing. What works for them ought to work for us, we thought.

How should the American people treat a population which only has a marginal economic impact yet still manages to stimulate job growth and consumption in the country? The presumed answer is sadly far from the reality of how America behaves towards “illegal immigrants.”

To lots of people — human and civil rights advocates in particular — there\'s something inherently objectionable about the private prison industry. Companies that make money by constructing and operating detention centers essentially turn a profit on high crime rates, harsh penalties for offenders and the ideological crusade against illegal immigrants. It\'s a consummate example of what leftist social critic Noam Chomsky calls \"profit over people.\"

On Friday the Democratic National Committee launched its first presidential ad of the 2012 cycle, and it was in Spanish. In preparation for the 2012 presidential election, it seems both Democrats and Republicans have begun reaching out early to a coveted voting bloc: Los Independiente.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Foundation.

President Barack Obama on Monday sought to mend a growing rift with Hispanics over the lack of progress on immigration reform and other key issues, telling a national Latino conference, “I will keep up this fight.” “This is a city where ‘compromise’ is becoming a dirty word, where there’s more political upside in doing what’s easier for reelection [and] what’s easier for an attack ad than what’s best for the country,” Obama told the National Council of La Raza, a prominent Hispanic civil rights group, at its annual conference.

President Obama courted the vote-rich Latino community Monday and urged activists to build a national movement to pressure Republicans to overhaul the nation\'s broken immigration laws.