Illegal aliens

OGDEN — Ten individuals in Weber, Davis, and Box Elder counties were arrested as part of a nationwide round up last week of convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators.

Mitt Romney parted ways with his Arizona campaign co-chairman after allegations of misconduct made by a man with whom the campaign official previously had a relationship.

PHOENIX -- A judge heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit that alleges racial profiling in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration patrols, a week after federal authorities accused the sheriff's office of a wide range of civil rights violations.

The lawsuit was filed by a handful of Latinos who claim officers based some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics in vehicles, pulling them over without probable cause to inquire about their immigration status.

PHOENIX -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio says a scathing U.S. Justice Department report about his office's law enforcement tactics marks what he calls "a sad day for America as a whole."

OGDEN -- The head of the Utah Sheriffs' Association is blasting a federal audit that resulted in the June removal of 32 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees from Weber County Jail.

The association's executive director, Gary W. DeLand, of Santa Clara, said Monday that ICE's decision to pull the prisoners from the jail was arbitrary and improper.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Unitarian church in New Mexico sends supplies to the border for recent deportees. A coalition of church leaders gathers under a statue of colonial America religious figure Anne Hutchinson at the Massachusetts Statehouse to denounce immigration checks by police. A Methodist minister in Texas recites Isaiah 58:6, a passage about loosening the bonds of injustice, as she's thrown in jail after protesting alongside illegal immigrant students outside a U.S. senator's office.