The US Supreme Court refused on Monday to examine a California law that allows illegal immigrants to attend state colleges and universities at preferential in-state tuition rates that are roughly one-third the cost charged to students from out-of-state.

Under the state law any individual – regardless of immigration status – who graduates from a California high school after attending for three years qualifies for the same tuition discount offered to California residents.

The discounts apply at all public universities in the state, including the system’s most prestigious and highly-competitive institutions.

Eight other states have enacted similar provisions, offering illegal immigrants in those states the same in-state tuition discount offered to state residents. Those states are Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington. Oklahoma passed a similar law, but later repealed it.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies arrested an illegal immigrant working inside the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, the nation's largest nuclear plant and one of the most closely monitored in the country.

Cruz Loya Alvares was taken into custody by Sheriff Deputies Wednesday and interrogated by the Sheriff's Human Smuggling detectives.

Deputies determined that the worker is, in fact, here illegally. Cruz admitted he has been in the U.S. illegally for most of the past 15 years. He was detained and deported in 2000 but paid a coyote for re-entry into the U.S. And last month, Cruz admitted that in June 2011, Mesa Police cited him for driving with a suspended license.

According to Sheriff Arpaio, Cruz tried to gain access to the Nuclear power plant on Monday but was denied entrance because his Mexican Driver's license was expired.

A 48-year-old disabled woman was allegedly raped Saturday morning just hours after being released from the Intensive Care Unit of a local hospital. Juventino M. Pizano, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant, was arrested for the crime.

Police arrested the man on suspicion of sexually assaulting five girls and attacking another in the Chandler Rapist crime spree that spanned 18 months, police announced Saturday. Santana Batiz-Aceves, 39, a twice-deported illegal immigrant with a history

Immigration and customs officials have arrested a fugitive immigrant accused of sexually abusing a minor in Frederick. Raul Ernesto Sarmiento Sanchez, a 48-year-old Honduran national, was arrested on Dec. 27 at a Fairfax County apartment, Immigration and

An illegal immigrant who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a car crash that killed two teenage girls was sentenced Monday to 24 years in prison. Police said Alfredo Ramos' blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit on March 30 when hi

An illegal immigrant from Lebanon with relatives linked to the militant Islamic group Hezbollah paid a U.S. citizen to marry her and then lied her way through national security background checks to become an agent for the FBI and the CIA. She used her pos

An illegal immigrant has been arrested on charges he used a stolen ID to get a job he held in Sarasota for nearly a year, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports. Emilio Perez-Ramirez, 34, became a suspect when the IRS notified a man in Texas that som

Immigration officials say it's another case of smuggling illegal immigrants across the border. It all began with a traffic stop by the State Patrol, west of the metro this morning. Authorities ended up taking multiple people into custody. This appears to

A man who accidentally drove his SUV into an outdoor dining area of a Clayton restaurant - leaving three diners injured - now faces federal charges for being in the country illegally. In fact, authorities said Friday that Sergio Lopez-Luna, 23, has twice

As a group of New York State Republican assemblymen held a hearing at Patchogue Village Hall to call into question the controversial immigrant drivers license plan proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a coalition of religious, labor and immigrant leaders prote

An illegal immigrant from Mexico was indicted Wednesday for shooting a Phoenix Police officer. Jose Abel Cabrera-Somosa, 35, was indicted for attempted first-degree murder as well as weapons charges. He has been charged with shooting a Phoenix police offi

The Senate's Republican majority moved Monday to try to block Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to make it easier for illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses. The bill to reverse Spitzer's order drew some of the most heated and personal attacks seen in ye

Mendoza has other gripes with Western Union. When she sends $1,000 to her siblings in the U.S., Western Union charges $70 compared with $40 by Delgado. And when she uses Delgado, her mom in Mexico receives dollars, which she can hold onto until the dollar

Government prosecutors argue Zapeta broke the law by failing to report the cash and by evading taxes. They have dropped an earlier theory that he might be laundering money.

Georgetown County Sheriff's Investigators arrested Antonio M. Borja, 22, early this morning for the murder of 33-year-old Ernesto Deleon Simon. The murder occurred October 9. Borja is from El Salvador has been living at 119 SouthHazard Street in Georgetow

An illegal Albanian immigrant was arraigned at the 42-2 District Court in Macomb County on criminal sexual conduct and home invasion charges Monday. Police said 28-year-old Altin Shabi sexually assaulted an 83-year-old woman inside of her Willows Apartmen

Illegal alien criminal supporters said Monday that, because an invader was accused in the shooting of another Phoenix police officer, did not mean Hispanic illegal aliens criminals are more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. [Common Sense Note: I

In New York, state officials are about to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and already have extended limited medical coverage to those battling cancer. In Illinois, the state legislature just passed a law forbidding businesses there from usin

The man police believe is responsible for the fatal car crash on Interstate 440 over the weekend is believed to have entered the country illegally. An immigration hold has been placed on Lorenzo Hernandez Santiz, 21, following his arrest Sunday for vehicu

Students all over the state are pressuring the Governor to sign a bill to help undocumented immigrants get through college. The California Dream Act would enable immigrants who went to high school here to qualify for some state financial aid.

A west suburban woman who became one of the public faces of the immigration debate is now about to be deported. Teresa Figueroa is a wife, a mom and much beloved in her community, but she also broke the law.

The furor erupted after agents rounded up 186 people last week in what was billed as a crackdown on gang activity on Long Island. Federal authorities said many of the people arrested were gang members, but local officials believe that claim was exaggerate

Pat McDonough, a Republican who represents portions of Baltimore and Harford counties, is making a new push to make it more difficult for illegal workers to stay here. He told ABC-2 News, “We are in probably the worst state in the nation when it comes t

An illegal immigrant was part of the security team responsible for the safety of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it has been revealed. Marouane Bourannane was caught with a fake French passport and even had a picture of himself and Gordon Brown taken at last

A U.S. county near the Mexican border spent $101.5 million on public services for illegal immigrants in the last year and officials plan to bill the president because the federal government has failed miserably to enforce immigration laws and municipaliti

Judge Robert Junell had adjourned the seven-man, five-woman jury at 11 a.m. Monday after giving up on the 38-year-old Mexican citizen from El Paso and issuing a bench warrant for the arrest of the accused coyote, a term for people who smuggle illegal immi

The Homeland Security Department is suing Illinois to undo a new state law the federal agency says would make it more difficult to enforce the nation's immigration laws. The law is an amendment to Illinois's “Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act" which

A Republican-sponsored bill would strip up to 50 percent of Homeland Security funding from cities that bar police officers from asking about a person's immigration status during routine encounters. Minneapolis and St. Paul are among more than 30 major cit

The illegal immigrant whose SUV ran into diners outside a Clayton eatery this week had been involved in a crash in St. Louis less than two months ago. City police records indicate that the driver, Sergio Lopez, 23, caused a collision July 26 on South King

COLUMBIA, Md. -- An illegal immigrant accused of killing a Marine and his date in a DUI crash last November pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday. Edwardo Morales-Soriano, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of negligent manslaughter.