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Problems surface over Ariz.'s 2007 immigration law

The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.Full story

Immigration bill backers thwart conservative amendments

RI bill would give licenses to illegal immigrants

NBC Politics: Conservative group pegs cost of 'path to citizenship' at $6.3T

California governor urges faster immigration reform

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wading into the national debate over immigration, California Governor Jerry Brown is pushing for a faster path to citizenship for the millions of people who are in the country illegally. Full story

SC immigration unit measures successes, challenges

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The commander of a special South Carolina law enforcement unit that investigates criminal cases against illegal immigrants says the force has been successful in its first year. Full story

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Grads preferred to grandmas in proposed immigration bill

Recall bid against Ariz. sheriff faces tough odds

‘Illegal’ immigrants? No: an action can be illegal, but a person isn’t.

Associated Press stops using term ‘illegal immigrant’

Outlook improves dramatically for immigration deal

Saudi's illegal immigrants draw fear of "infiltrators"

Britain's PM Cameron unveils immigration crackdown

What we’re reading: Tuesday, March 19, 2013

NBC Politics: Official: Release of detained immigrants 'just efforts to live within our budget'

High court to weigh Arizona voter registration case

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  Toure: ‘I’m embracing the open borders movement’

MSNBC’s Toure explains why he thinks the answer to the immigration debate is to open the borders.

  Obama focuses on improving US-Mexico relations

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., discusses President Obama’s recent comments at a speech in Mexico City and in his weekly radio address about improving US relations with Mexico.

  First Read Minute: Political questions after Boston

One week after the Boston Marathon bombings, NBC’s Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro highlight the two remaining questions confronting the political world: How the federal government should try terror suspects, even if they are U.S. citizens, and the impact of the tragedy in Boston on the immigrati

  A reality check on border security

Shannon O’Neil, senior fellow for Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the new book “Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead,” talks with MSNBC’s Mara Schiavocampo about immigration reform.

  South Texas sees rise in illegal border crossings

Despite a dramatic drop in illegal immigration nationwide, south Texas, along the Rio Grande, is now seeing a rise in immigrants crossing the Mexican border, as many flee the poverty and violence in Central America. NBC’s Mark Potter reports.

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A group of illegal immigrants, who handed themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol, sit in a restaurant in Encino, Texas

A group of illegal immigrants, who handed themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol, sit in a restaurant in Encino, Texas March 29, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

A U.S. Border Patrol agent searches for illegal immigrants who crossed over the Rio Grande river in Mission, Texas
A U.S. Border Patrol agent searches for illegal immigrants who crossed over the Rio Grande river in Mission, Texas

A U.S. Border Patrol agent from the Rio Grande Valley Sector searches for a group of illegal immigrants who crossed over the Rio Grande river in Mission, Texas March 28, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff's deputies found 129 bodies th

A U.S. Border Patrol agent searches for illegal immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande River in Mission, Texas
A U.S. Border Patrol agent searches for illegal immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande River in Mission, Texas

A U.S. Border Patrol agent from the Rio Grande Valley Sector searches for a group of illegal immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande River in Mission, Texas March 28, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff's deputies found 129 bodies there,