61.   The lawsuit seeks to block a decision by federal immigration officials to send Elian back to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, in Cuba.

62.   The prisoners were illegal immigrants who had been sent to the county following a melee that closed a nearby federal immigration detention center in Elizabeth.

63.   The Phoenix policy prohibits officers from stopping people just to check their citizenship and from arresting people when the only violation is an infraction of federal immigration law.

64.   The situation is such that the Justice Department is considering allowing local police departments to help the INS enforce federal immigration laws.

65.   The Texan expected to head the House immigration subcommittee next year predicts that the GOP-controlled Congress will make sweeping changes in federal immigration law.

66.   Under federal immigration law, refugees can claim asylum only once they reach American soil.

67.   Under federal immigration law, the government is entitled to much of the information it has sought.

68.   Under federal immigration law, anyone who hires an alien must first determine whether the alien is a legal resident of the United States.

69.   Under federal immigration law, non-citizen immigrants convicted of such crimes are subject to deportation or detention.

70.   Virginia Bradshaw, the state labor commissioner, complained that federal immigration officials had acted improperly by not notifying the state of its actions beforehand.