Civil rights groups are making a last-ditch effort this afternoon to keep a key provision of the state's immigration law from being enforced as early as next week.
Since they were deported, 21-year-old Jose Contreras, right, and a 24-year-old man named Alejandro, spend much of their time on the on the banks of the Tijuana trying to figure out how to get back into the U.S.
Every year, the Department of Homeland Security releases statistics showing how many deportations its enforcement agencies -– Immigration and Customs, the Border Patrol -- have carried out in the previous year.
Gov. Jan Brewer reacts Wednesday to the refusal of U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton to issue a new injunction against a key provision of SB 1070.
A federal judge this morning questioned a bid by civil rights groups to get her to again block the state from enforcing a key provision of a 2010 law aimed at illegal immigrants.