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A pickup truck in Mexico pulls up to the 5-foot vehicle barriers that make up part of the multibillion-dollar border fence. A retractable ramp is extended from the truck, forming a bridge up and over the barriers.
An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.
Employees of an Arizona county who have flu symptoms or a temperature of at least 100.4 degrees must stay home from work or risk being disciplined or fired under a new policy, officials said Thursday.
County officials in Arizona have approved an agreement that would let 60 county jail officers continue to check on the immigration status of jail inmates.
The number of immigrants who died while sneaking across America's southern border in the last 12 months is expected to surpass the previous year's total, even as fewer people are getting caught entering the country illegally.
Republicans in more than a dozen states opposed to President Barack Obama's push for health care overhaul have mounted state-driven efforts to block federal intervention in health care, with some early success.
Immigration authorities are flying illegal immigrants deep into their native Mexico from Southern Arizona to discourage dangerous crossings in triple-digit desert heat.
Arizona still doesn't have an approved balanced budget for the nearly 2-month-old fiscal year and Treasurer Dean Martin's office is making preparations for new large-scale borrowing by the state.
It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place.
The Arizona House has defeated a bill that would have made it the only state in the nation to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants by expanding its trespassing law.
As America's busiest immigrant smuggling hub, Arizona has earned the distinction as a place that's tough on people who sneak across the border.
The Arizona Supreme Court put the brakes Wednesday on an effort by state prosecutors to seize suspected drug and immigrant smuggling money that's wired from other American states into northern Mexico.
A lawyer for an Arizona sheriff who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration has asked for a probe of federal officials who are investigating the sheriff's office for alleged discrimination and unconstitutional searches.
The drug war in Mexico shouldn't be used as an excuse to try to restrict American gun rights, Sen. John McCain said Friday at the National Rifle Association's convention.
The abortion flap over President Barack Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame's graduation is getting all the attention.
A 13-year-old girl was grabbed off the street and thrown into an SUV by Mexican kidnappers who mistakenly believed she was the niece of a drug dealer who helped steal 55 pounds of marijuana.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard says the violent smuggling operations that bring drugs and immigrants into the United States from Mexico are a problem for both governments to confront.
Posing as police officers, gunmen in bulletproof vests pulled over a motorist, took him to a Phoenix house, bound him with zip ties and held him for a $30,000 ransom in an abduction that may have been carried out by Mexican drug smugglers.
Ten Republican congressmen argue that a civil rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office could have a chilling effect on other state and local police agencies that seek to crack down on illegal immigration.
A former janitor convicted of murdering six people and attacking 19 others will learn his fate in the next few weeks as jurors consider whether he should be put to death for dozens of random, nighttime shootings that terrorized the city in 2005 and 2006.
Four members of Congress have asked the Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into immigration and crime sweeps conducted by an Arizona sheriff's office.
The main suspect in the Phoenix area's Serial Shooter case says shell casings found in his car must have been placed there by a second suspect.
As police approached a drug cartel's safe house in northwestern Mexico last May, gunmen inside poured on fire with powerful assault rifles and grenades, killing seven officers whose weapons were no match.
Thousands of people packed into train cars Saturday as this car-crazy city launched its new light rail system amid criticism that ridership would be limited by urban sprawl and the area's grueling summer heat.
Janet Napolitano didn't begin her tenure as Arizona's governor focused on immigration, but she gradually built a record of trying to confront the state's vast border woes.
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