The Arizona Republic has a writeup of ads running for and against Prop. 200, which would deny public benefits not mandated by federal law to illegal aliens. The ad by opponents of Prop. 200 uses the scare tactic of saying that firefighters would have to ask for ID, which is not true. The ad in support of Prop. 200 points to the high cost of illegal immigration to Arizona taxpayers, almost $1.3 billion dollars.

"Two former Bureau of Motor Vehicles workers on Tuesday pleaded guilty to bribery, admitting they forged documents for foreign nationals. Vernetta Brown, 39, faces a maximum of four years in prison, and Marvin Fennell, 38, faces a maximum of three years under terms of plea agreements filed in Marion Superior Court. Judge Robert Altice scheduled sentencing hearings for Nov. 10," the Indianapolis Star writes.

"Crossing the U.S. border has become more and more hazardous for illegal migrants in the decade since the Border Patrol, starting in San Diego, began fortifying the most heavily trafficked frontier sectors with new fences, brighter lights and additional agents. . . . But agents on the front line say they feel overrun. They say that the rising arrest totals simply mean that more migrants are getting in; according to conventional estimates, three migrants enter for every one who is caught," writes the LA Times. "'The strategy of trying to regain control of the border inch by inch is failing,' said T.J. Bonner, president of the San Diego-based National Border Patrol Council, a union representing 10,000 Border Patrol employees. It cannot succeed, he added, without 'teeth in the sanctions' that outlaw the hiring of illegal immigrants in the United States."

"An Egyptian who ran an Islamic investment firm in New Jersey was found guilty on Tuesday of lying to federal agents about business dealings with a leader of the militant group Hamas," the New York Times reports. "A jury convicted the man, Soliman S. Biheiri, 53, of making false statements to federal investigators by denying a business relationship with Mousa Abu Marzook, the political leader of Hamas."

"Federal authorities today announced a stepped-up enforcement effort targeting human smuggling at the California-Mexico border, with particular attention on Lindbergh Field. Authorities will focus on the illicit transport of undocumented people into the San Diego area -- notably, through its bayside international airport -- and into Imperial County, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials reported," the North County Times writes.

"The Supreme Court yesterday considered whether the government can send immigrants back to countries that haven't agreed to accept them, a question that will determine the fate of thousands of Somalis resisting deportation to their war-torn homeland," the AP writes. "The immigration case is one of three being heard this week that seek to delineate the limits of federal authorities, who say they should have wide discretion to send back or indefinitely detain foreigners in a post-September 11 world of heightened terror threats."

"U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July," says the Washington Times. "The Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports. Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity."