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Utah Anti-Immigrant Group IDs 1,300 Supposed Illegals

(July 14) -- Officials in Utah fear that a group of anti-immigration activists may have taken matters into their own hands. An anonymous group of "concerned citizens" sent a letter this week to newspapers in Utah containing more than 1,300 names of people it says are in the country illegally. It also enclosed a similar...

Holder: US Will Watch Arizona for Racial Profiling

(July 11) -- Although Arizona's new immigration law raised concerns that it might result in racial profiling, Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Justice Department lawsuit seeking to overturn it focused tightly on the federal government's prerogative to set immigration policy because that provided the...

Feds Sue to Block Arizona Immigration Law

(July 6) -- The Justice Department made official Tuesday afternoon what its tribunes have hinted at for the past two months: the federal government will challenge the constitutionality of Arizona's controversial new immigration law and seek an immediate injunction from a federal judge to block the measure's enforcement...

Upgrades to Illegal Immigrant Facilities Probed

LOS ANGELES (June 29) -- A California congressman is investigating a government proposal to upgrade immigration detention centers to include unmonitored phone lines, dance and cooking lessons, continental breakfasts, freedom from lockdown and other amenities. Nine facilities that house illegal immigrants detained by...

LA Cardinal, Ariz. Senator Spar Over Immigration

LOS ANGELES (April 22) -- A controversial Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants has sparked a war of words between an Arizona legislator and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, who on Sunday decried a scenario under the pending legislation of "reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are...