In this Issue:

1. Openers

2. ABCs of Immigration Law: Adopting Foreign Orphans

3. Ask Visalaw.com

4. Border and Enforcement (Arizona) News

-Top Official Says Feds May Not Process Illegally Present Immigrants Referred From Arizona

-Arizona Gov. Brewer announces appointment of counsel to defend

immigration laws

-Obama to send troops to U.S.-Mexican border

-Arizona immigration law will boost crime in U.S. cities, police chiefs say

-Mass. Senate passes crackdown on illegal immigrants

-Arizona seeks dismissal of lawsuit over new law

-Do You Take This Immigrant?

-Arizona immigration law may increase Phoenix foreclosures

-Texas Republicans add Arizona-like residency checks to platform

5. News from the Courts

-Justice poised to file legal challenge to Arizona immigration law

-Day Labor and Free Speech

6. News Bytes

-Rhode Island House speaker kills immigration bill

-Ballot measures proposed on Ariz. immigration law

-Britain to scrap unpopular ID card program (INTERNATIONAL NEWS)

-US, Cuba to hold immigration talks (INTERNATIONAL NEWS)

-Clinton hopes for US immigration fix this year

-The immigration brain drain

-ICE Realigns Itself, but Won't Call It a Restructuring

7. Washington Watch

-Top GOPer: Calderon 'crossed the line' by criticizing Ariz. law

-Hatch says Mexican president should lay off Arizona Immigration

-Senate Dems to give federal commission say over legal immigrant workers

-John McCain's Bid to Send 6,000 Troops to Border Rebuffed in Senate

-Obama on Arizona: Presidents don't do Boycotts

-DOJ officials met in Phoenix with Arizona AG

-DeMint bid to build border fence defeated

-McCain Pretends That He Now Opposes The DREAM Act

8. Notes from the Visalaw.com Blogs

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