Over the last few weeks, we have run a series of special reports on immigration in print, on television and radio, and on our multiple websites. We have tried hard to fairly represent all points of view. We have also tried to separate fact from fiction, hyperbole from reality.

SALT LAKE CITY — Now that Arizona\'s controversial immigration law is tied up in the courts, some Utah leaders think the time is right to look at other approaches to dealing with undocumented immigrants. \"Frankly, I don\'t really care about the Arizona bill,\" Gov. Gary Herbert told the Deseret News. \"I care about finding a Utah solution to the unique challenges of illegal immigration in Utah.\"

Rather than shout, I\'ll just ask the question in a civil way: Dear Republicans, do you really want to endanger your party\'s greatest political legacy by turning the 14th Amendment to our Constitution into an excuse for election-year ugliness? Honestly, I thought our politics could not get worse, and suddenly there appears this attack on birthright citizenship and the introduction into popular use of the hideous term \"anchor babies,\" children that illegal immigrants have for the alleged purpose of \"anchoring\" themselves to American rights and the welfare state.

It is apparent our government cannot come up with a workable immigration plan that can be supported by a majority of Americans. Perhaps a citizen can bring common sense to the issue. Here are the eight main elements of such a plan:

Like many other Americans, our family recently celebrated our country\'s birthday. We sang patriotic hymns during sacrament meeting. These beautiful hymns mean a lot to my family as we sing those hymns because I serve in our country\'s military and see the sacrifice my family makes on my behalf.

The scorched-earth TV ads, the defamation lawsuit, the trash talk, the not-entirely-gracious concession speech. All\'s fair in love, war and political primaries. But there\'s no time for any of it anymore if Republicans want to take back the Tennessee governor\'s office and win seats in Washington.

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. -- The breakfast coffee was starting to cool when Tom Tancredo wrapped up his talk on the evils of illegal immigration and President Barack Obama, and opened the floor to questions from his fellow Republicans. One of the first: Why are you ruining Republican prospects by jumping into the Colorado governor\'s race as a third-party candidate?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- While the death threats pour in against the federal judge who blocked key provisions of Arizona\'s controversial immigration law, the state is preparing to do battle to save those elements in the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals.

One of Theodore Roosevelt\'s most memorable speeches praised \"the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who spends himself in a worthy cause.\" The person who deserves even more praise is the one who climbs into the arena to take on a fight that doesn\'t impact him directly but who engages it anyway because it\'s the right thing to do.

President Barack Obama says he agrees that more control must be exerted over illegal immigration, but he won\'t accept \"a patchwork of 50 different states\" acting on their own.

A few weeks ago, Steve Sandstrom thought he had escaped on a 20th anniversary cruise with his wife. Alas, he couldn\'t dodge the hot-button issue he has chosen as his own: immigration. \"This whole immigration thing has taken over my entire life,\" the Orem lawmaker said.

Facing an $18 billion state funding crisis that has already required deep cuts in agency budgets, the last thing Texas needs is a legislative season in 2011 paralyzed by a fight over an Arizona-style immigration law. Until federal judge Susan Bolton issued an injunction last week suspending the law\'s most controversial provisions, such a debilitating conflict in Austin next spring seemed inevitable.

RICHMOND -- Virginia Republicans who had backed away from the hot-button topic of illegal immigration the past couple of years, concerned that the hard-line approach could backfire at the ballot box, are embracing the issue once again.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R) says America faces a new and growing foreign threat: illegal immigrants and tourists who come to here for the express purpose of giving birth so their children obtain citizenship.

SALT LAKE CITY — The state government suddenly has a huge trust problem with Latinos, members of the Governor\'s Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council warned on Thursday. That isn\'t surprising, since the state acknowledges that two rogue Department of Workforce Services employees compiled a list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants from its databases and distributed it publicly. But what may be surprising is what some Hispanics think the state is doing now after release of the list.

A letter from the Department of Workforce Services sheds new light on the genesis of “the list” of 1,300 purportedly undocumented immigrants and the role two state employees allegedly played in compiling and distributing the data.