na Puente was an infant with a liver disorder when her aunt brought her illegally to the U.S. to seek medical care. She underwent two liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center as a child in 1989 and a third in 1998, each paid for by the state. But when Pue

I really wish that the media would quit referring to illegal aliens as immigrants. They are not remotely the same thing. The difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is the difference between the person who you let into your home after he knoc

Every American's vote counts. It's a basic pillar of our electoral system. But a CBS 11 investigation discovered that election officials can't guarantee that only American citizens vote in elections. After the review of data from Tarrant and Dallas Counti

Illegal immigration is the top concern of Phoenix-area voters, according to a new poll by Arizona State University and KAET-TV Channel 8. Twenty-seven percent of the Maricopa County voters surveyed in the November poll said illegal immigration was the reg

A controversial billboard is the talk of the town in Lewis County, Washington. A restaurant owner says he's using a billboard to send a message to illegal immigrants. It reads "No Mexican olympic teams, all of their runners and swimmers are here." The His

A cached webpage of the Seattle District's page regarding "Equity & Race," had defined racism as: "The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Am

It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across

Among the many problems on the US-Mexico border is that of reported Mexican military incursions onto the US side of the border. These incidents raise disturbing questions about US-Mexican relations and the two nations' wars on the drug cartels. The eviden