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PHOENIX -- Arizona is facing a backlash over its new law cracking on illegal immigrants, with opponents pushing for a tourism boycott like the one that was used to punish the state 20 years ago over its refusal to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

PHOENIX/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The police chief of Arizona's largest city said on Friday the state's controversial new crackdown on illegal immigrants would likely create more problems than it solved for local law enforcement. The remarks by Phoenix ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary April 29, 2010 Statement by the President on Senate Proposal Outlined Today to Fix Our Nations Broken Immigration System It is the federal government's responsibility to enforce the law and ...

PHOENIX Calls for a boycott against Arizona over its immigration law are growing by the day. A coalition of Arizona civil rights groups is the latest to push for a boycott. It follows civil rights leaders urging organizations to cancel conventions in ...

Just moments before I was gently removed from the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police meeting on Wednesday in Phoenix - it was, apparently, a closed meeting - the Hispanic, Harvard-educated U.S. marshal for Arizona stood up to brief the group, as ...

Arizona's new immigration law requires local police to inquire about a person's immigration status if they suspect that person is in the country illegally. The law is slated to take effect in late July or early August. ...

Public furor is mounting across the nation over Arizona's new 'show me your papers or go to jail' immigration law. One Hispanic congressman, Raul Grijalva (D-Tucson) is urging tourists and national conventions to boycott his state. Another, our own Jose ...

The Georgia Senate sent a message to Washington secure the borders. In a senate resolution the Senate voted 34-9 to urge President Obama and Congress to secure the borders and reject demands to repeat the failed 1986 legalization program for ...

Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday that Criminal gangs prey on migrants while authorities ignore the problem "or even play an active part" in it. Rupert Knox, Mexico Researcher at Amnesty International, said, the report, "Invisible ...

The Mexican authorities must act to halt the appalling abuse of migrants who are preyed on by criminal gangs, while public officials turn a blind eye or even play an active part in kidnappings, rape and murder, Amnesty International said in a new report ...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday said he would not rule out a legal challenge to Arizona's new immigration law. Speaking with reporters in Washington, Holder said no decision had been made but the Department of Justice was coordinating with the ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) declared a comprehensive immigration bill dead on arrival if the government does not first do more to secure its borders. Graham tangled with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during a Judiciary Committee hearing ...

Harry Debes, CEO of ERP vendor Lawson Software, has a well-earned reputation for speaking his mind -- and giving Lawsons PR team ulcers in the process. A 2008 interview in which he likened software to cocaine, in that it hooks users who become ...

The Nation -- The call is growing to boycott and protest the Arizona Diamondbacks wherever they play in response to the monstrously named 'Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act' SB 1070. The owners of the D-backs, the Kendrick family ...

Aims To identify correlates of active syphilis infection among female sex workers (FSWs) in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.Design Cross-sectional analyses of baseline interview data. Correlates of active syphilis (antibody titers >1 : 8) were identified by ...

Sacramento has had two Mexican American police chiefs who've served with distinction even as they looked undeniably Mexican in blue. Albert Njera has dark skin and as a young Sacramento cop 25 years ago, he worked undercover and could look scary ...

The immigration-enforcement bill signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is the toughest of its kind in the U.S., which is expected to further divide the country of immigrants. The Arizona immigration law has become front-page stories in many ...

PHOENIX - The furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew yesterday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol, civil-rights leaders demanded a boycott of the state, and the Obama administration ...

WASHINGTON Senator John McCain of Arizona took to the Senate floor the other day to embrace a tough new Arizona law giving the police the authority to detain people they suspect are illegal immigrants. Mr. McCain, long an outspoken champion of giving ...

Regarding the April 27 editorial 'Stalled front': The irony of Democratic efforts to push so-called comprehensive immigration reform ahead of climate change in hopes of catching a political wave against Arizona's strict new immigration law is that even ...