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PHOENIX -- Authorities say three police officers have been shot and wounded in south Phoenix. Authorities say they're searching for a suspect who fled the scene Wednesday evening. Details are sketchy at this time, and authorities didn't immediately release any other information. Video from television news helicopters showed the officers being taken out of a home on stretchers and transported to Phoenix hospitals. Their conditions weren't immediately available.

Afraid of what? Hanging out on the corner of Western and Armitage on a Saturday night is not my usual practice. But the birthday boy got to pick what he wanted for dinner, and he picked hot fudge sundaes at Margie's Candies. We had to wait for a table, and the place is tiny, so the waiting was done on the sidewalk outside. A lovely, warm June evening. Puerto Rican Festival -- obviously, based on the number of cars flying Puerto Rico's flag. Sometimes the cars were honking or playing loud music. Sometimes the flag was waved through open sunroofs...

Every day, smugglers guide hundreds of undocumented immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. Coyotes are now charging more than ever for the trip. However, it's not just the price that's gone up — so has the risk of losing your life. Freeways and back roads are the battlefields. "They will shoot, attempt to stop a vehicle," said Alonzo Peña, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They are armed bandits who stake out these areas, smuggling routes that lead from the border to cities like Tucson, Ariz. "They don't want to take the risk of smuggling the load themselves," Peña said. The load...

There will be rally to protest illegal immigration on Tuesday, May 1 in Boston at 3:30 in the afternoon. Meeting place will be at the Boston Commons across from the MacDonald's restaurant near a small statue and a set of lights on Tremont Street. The Park Street subway station is close by at the corner of Park and Tremont Sts. The march starts at 4 P.M. We hope to see you there. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Dennis Coull at: email: dennis_r_us@yahoo.com For those arriving late look for the "Anti-Illegal Immigration" signs.

Just like that, ladies and gentlemen. I had even lost hope that I would become one anytime soon, but thank God I received the good news today. My ceremony will be that day at about 8:00 AM at Harris-Stowe State University in downtown St. Louis. I'M HAPPY!!!

On Sunday, April 8, 2007, Campo Minuteman Britt Craig Kingfish, will fly to Columbia South Carolia where he will pick up a new truck. He will then attach a banner on one side that says "FREE RAMOS AND COMPEAN" and a banner on the other side that says "FREE GILMER HERNANDEZ" and drive back to California through Georgia, Florida, and the border states. He will pass out flyers on the Ramos and Compean and Gilmer Hernandez cases: Pardon the Agents http://www.pardontheagents.com/ FREE RAMOS and COMPEAN! www.agentramos.com FREE GILMER! www.freegilmer.com He will stop in El Paso and see the Ramos Family....

DALLAS - A spokesman for the Mexican Consulate of Dallas says police in North and East Texas profiled illegal immigrants and exceeded their authority in checking the immigrants' residency status. Consulate officials blamed the increased scrutiny on "Operation Wrangler," a plan announced last week by Gov. Rick Perry to crack down on drug and human smuggling along the Mexican border with coordinated law enforcement throughout the state. Eduardo Rea Falcon, a Consulate spokesman, said Mexican officials believe 33 of 47 men, women and children held over the weekend at a federal immigration center in Dallas were profiled by police. The...

Border Patrol Agents find two people hidden in a closed toolbox. The couple was sweating profusely when they were rescued from the toolbox. The driver, a 41 year-old United States citizen and another person, a 31 year-old United States citizen were arrested and charged with alien smuggling. The couple were rescued when agents conducted a secondary inspection of a pickup. Agents say the toolbox was closed shut making it impossible for the immigrants to get free. The woman says she is four months pregnant but did not want to see a doctor.

President Bush spoke yesterday in Los Angeles on the subject of immigration reform. For the life of me I cannot figure out what is motivating his stance on this subject. Bush, speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, insists that any immigration bill passed by the Congress be "comprehensive." Just exactly does he mean by "comprehensive." Glad you asked. He means that a bill that simply provides for tighter border security and harsher punishment for employers who hire people who are in this country illegally will not satisfy his demands. We're being invaded. Some of the invaders crossing our borders...

WASHINGTON — The House author of a border security bill that triggered massive street protests stood firm today against amnesty for illegal immigrants and predicted tough negotiations with the Senate on compromise legislation. The Senate passed its sweeping bill 62-36 Thursday after two weeks of debate and difficult votes that tested the strength of a coalition of bipartisan senators who supported the opportunity for U.S. citizenship that their bill would give most of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people who are in this country illegally.

The Bush administration and Republican Senators have badly misjudged both the attitudes of most Republicans (and, of course, most Americans) toward illegal immigration, and the intensity of those views. While we have opposed the Senate plan, we have been pretty mild-mannered about it. So I'm turning the microphone over to my friend Bob Cunningham. No one I know of argues immigration-related issues more cogently. Equally important, no one I know of conveys the white-hot anger and sense of betrayal that millions of Americans feel about this issue more effectively. We know that this site is widely read in the White...

Hundreds of people packed into the downtown San Bernardino city library Thursday to applaud critics of an immigration-reform bill and organize February as a month of opposition. The immigration bill and an escalating anti-Latino and anti-immigrant political atmosphere led UCR Ethnic Studies professor Armando Navarro to call the meeting under the auspices of the National Alliance for Human Rights.

President Bush wants unmanned drones used along the U.S.-Mexican border as part of his broader immigration initiative unveiled this week, but border patrol officials are still negotiating with the Federal Aviation Administration about where and when it can deploy the systems. "We're going to use drones to be able to help enforce the border in rural Texas and in rural New Mexico and rural Arizona," Bush said Tuesday. "Slowly, but surely, technology is being employed up and down the border, and that's a key part of our strategy." The president's proposal also includes a guestworker program and bolstering immigration laws.After...