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Philip Caputo; David Danelo; Margaret Regan About the Program From the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books a panel on writing on and living near the U.S. and Mexican Border. The panelists include Margaret Regan, The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from ...

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There's a lot of nattering about how the state of Arizona simply had to take things into its own hands given the abject failure of the feds to "get control" of the border with Mexicoover the past decade. Folks across the spectrum have acknowledged that ...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., speak about a border security plan to fight illegal immigration and criminal activity along the Arizona-Mexico border during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 19, 2010. ...

Tens of thousands of outraged protesters took to the streets of Washington DC on May Day demanding President Barack Obama step in over Arizona's immigration law. Known worldwide as International Workers Day, the history of the holiday in the US ...

Arizona college administrators say they are concerned about the effects the state's new immigration law, which Gov. Jan Brewer signed this week, will have on their campuses. Some out-of-state students have already told the University of Arizona they are ...

Two decades ago, when Arizona voters rejected a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the NFL yanked the Super Bowl from suburban Phoenix. The boycott marked a major turning point in the journey to nationwide acceptance of the King holiday. Today, Arizona, a ...

Not everyone is down on Arizona. While leading immigration rights groups have staged protests and called for boycotting Arizona businesses over the state's new immigration law, some outside groups are coming to the state's defense and organizing ...

The battle over financial regulatory overhaul continued Wednesday with the third in a series of votes designed to permit debate to begin on the bill. But, for the third time the vote failed 56 to 42. Sixty votes are needed before the bill would proceed ...

The Episcopal Church has responded to a controversial Arizona law expelling undocumented immigrants from the state by calling for comprehensive reform and justice for migrants. The law, roundly condemned by human rights and faith groups, will also ...

A newly inaugurated President Barack Obama pledged to tackle immigration reform during his first year in office. But no legislation has been passed, major workplace raids that made headlines during the Bush Administration are a distant memory, and no new ...

Officials have said that increasing drug-related violence along the U. S.-Mexico border remains mostly on the Mexican side, sparing many Arizona border towns. The Arizona Republic reported on Sunday that Crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma and other ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to rally across the United States Saturday in a protest at a tough new immigration law in Arizona that has triggered an outcry from rights groups. Demonstrations are planned in more than 70 ...

Arizona has decided that if the federal government will not live up to its responsibility to control the border, Arizona will. Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed a bill that allows police officers to inquire about a person's immigration status if ...

IMMIGRATION is the hot topic in much of Western Europe. From Dutch extremist Geert Wilders to Gordons Browns bigot Gillian Duffy and the likes of Abu Hamza , the English Defence League and more the flow of people is a big issue. But not to ...

FRANKLIN, Vt. - This is one sleepy border crossing. At the Morses Line Port of Entry, on the U.S.-Canada border, the border station is smack-dab in the middle of a Vermont dairy farm. On average, 21/2 cars pass through an hour. The pace is so slow that ...

ext Size la-na-arizona-crime-20100503 Reporting from Phoenix By many measures, Arizona has become safer since illegal immigrants began pouring into the state in the 1990s. Crime has dropped all across the country since then, but the decrease has been as ...

MEXICAN President Felipe Calderon has said he is 'deeply troubled' over a new Arizona immigration law he called 'discriminatory and racist'. Mr Calderon told reporters in Germany yesterday, where he was attending a conference on climate change, that the ...

Mexico - The new Arizona law requiring Mexicans, legal or illegal, to show proof of their legal status, renews the debate over illegal immigration. I am a retired American and have lived in Mexico for twenty years. I love Mexico and I love its people. ...

CHICAGO: Protesters nationwide vented their anger over a new Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants by calling on President Barack Obama to immediately take up their cause for federal immigration reform. Meanwhile authorities searching for ...