The AP says, "An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a 'virtual fence' of cameras, ground sensors, and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays." The program has spent almost $700 million but not achieved much success.

The New York Daily News says, "President Obama's Kenyan aunt gets to stay in this country a little longer while her deportation battle continues." Onyango has been trying to avoid deportation for several years.

A judge is considering sanctions against the Maricopa Sheriff's department for not retaining records about traffic stops. "U.S. District Judge Murray Snow heard arguments Thursday over whether the law enforcement agency should be punished for throwing away and shredding officers' records of traffic stops and for not handing over all its e-mails about the sweeps," the Washington Post reports. The traffic stops sometimes involved questions about immigration status, and lawyers for illegal alien supporters argue the sheriffs profiled people who they stopped.

"Raids on 14 illegal bus companies here have shed light on a seedy underground system that transported illegal immigrants all over the country and that sometimes held them captive until their relatives paid exorbitant fares, federal law enforcement officials said Thursday," according to the New York Times. "The bus companies worked exclusively with smuggling operations, officials said. The owners paid commissions of up to $300 for each passenger to smugglers who had brought the immigrants across the Mexican border."

"The Hispanic Federation slammed possible Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. on Monday, alleging that his record on immigration isn't up to par for New York City. Ford is a former congressman from Tennessee who is rumored to be seeking a primary challenge against current U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)," the Epoch Times writes. "Ford voted yes on a 2005 bill that was mostly Republican-backed in the House and, if it was passed in the Senate, would possibly have charged all illegal immigrants in the U.S. with a felony. . . "

The Christian Science Monitor says, "France's immigration minister said he is refusing citizenship to a Muslim man who called his wife 'an inferior being,' and forced her to wear a full veil in public, an announcement that plays well with French public support for a burqa ban."

The AP covers the controversy over providing dialysis to illegal alien patients in Georiga. "The treatment typically costs $40,000 to $50,000 a year, and [Atlanta's Grady Hospital] is just one of the struggling public hospitals cutting the service to reduce costs. Many indigent dialysis patients, including Kaur, are illegal immigrants, so facilities that give them routine treatments receive no federal money for their care. . . 'When you have long-term health conditions that need continuing care, the government needs to send these people back to their countries,' said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors tougher immigration enforcement. 'They cannot expect the taxpayer is going to endlessly pick up the tab.'"