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By Bob Davis After Arizona passed a series of tough anti-immigration laws, Rob Knorr couldn’t find enough Mexican field hands to pick his jalapeño peppers. He sharply reduced his acreage and invested $2 million developing a machine to remove pepper stems. His goal was to cut the number of laborers […]

Judges on the nation’s second most influential court ruled against Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio on Friday in a case challenging President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit affirmed the lower court’s December decision to dismiss the case for lack of legal standing. Arpaio, […]

In denying to hear an appeal from Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, the Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court’s decision to strike down a state immigration law. In October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a law Arizona voters had passed in […]

A divided U.S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling that will require Arizona to offer driver’s licenses to some undocumented immigrants in a case testing the strength of President Barack Obama’s deferred-deportation policies. Rebuffing state officials without comment, the justices today refused to block the federal appeals court decision, which […]