President Obama pressed with confidence about his future at the White House saying, "I've got another five years coming up," when asked why he hasn't passed immigration reform in a radio interview Wednesday with Univision.

Univision's Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo said he wondered since the president hasn't made major changes in immigration policies, and if he would still have support of the Latino community, given many are facing deportation and separation from families.

After saying declaratively that he's got more years in office to go, Obama added in the interview on immigration reform, "We're going to get this done. And absolutely, we have strong support in the Latino community because they've seen what we've been working on," he said.

The president later echoed the five-year line at a fundraiser in Miami Thursday evening, saying "[I]'m not done yet. I need five more years.  We need five more years to reform an immigration system that doesn't work and make sure that we are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants," he said.

Obama in the interview aruged that even though he hasn't been able to pass immigration reform, his work on the economy he says has helped millions of Latino families - things like housing initiatives, education platforms, extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance. (read more)

Sheriff Paul Babeu, famous for challenging the Obama administration's handling of "Fast and Furious," is mulling a potential run at Arizona's newly formed 4th congressional district

Babeu, a Republican, announced the formation of an exploratory committee on Monday. "I believe the real deficit in Washington is one of leadership," said the Pinal County Sheriff in a statement.

The National Sheriff's Association's "Sheriff of the Year," Babeu continued, "It's clear that Washington is broken. To fix it we'll need leaders unafraid to make tough decisions, leaders more worried about the next generation than the next election. I believe it may be time for a new Sheriff in Washington."

Babeu is a retired major in the Army National Guard and served a tour of duty in Iraq. He is also an outspoken critic of "Fast and Furious," the failed Obama Administration gun-running program.

ORLANDO, FL - According to Bob Vander Plaats, a key Iowa conservative, evangelical supporters and leaners are abandoning current GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry over Immigration, and the comments he made over the last two Florida debates, including Thursday night's Fox News-Google Debate in Orlando, when the Texas governor again defended his state's policy that aids children of illegal immigrants.

" If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state from no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own. I don't think you have a heart, " Perry said.

Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa Family Policy Center, was surprised that Perry made no attempt during his CPAC remarks Friday to adjust or explain himself on immigration after Thursday night's assertion that those who disagree with him on this topic ( like many conservatives) 'have no heart". (read more)

The dust has barely settled around the state recall election in Wisconsin where Democrats were only able to claim two of the six seats, but already national attention is turning to another heated recall in Arizona.

While Wisconsin instigated states across the country to try to change the way public employees could engage in collective bargaining, Arizona's recall could put comprehensive immigration reform back in the political spotlight ahead of the 2012 election.

The author of the controversial immigration law Arizona SB 1070- widely considered to be anti-immigrant and very strict - Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce, will face the first recall election of a state legislator there in history this November. It's a first for Arizona, but Pearce will be the ninth state legislator nationally to face a recall this year.

So far at least three people have decided to challenge the senator. And this week a Maricopa Co. judge is expected to rule on a petition to throw the entire recall out based on what supporters say was a flawed process.

Pearce was propelled onto the national stage as a champion of conservative and Tea Party polices with the passage of 1070. It requires law enforcement to check the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and whom they suspect to be in the country illegally. (read more)

El Paso, Texas -- President Obama is heading to El Paso, Texas Tuesday afternoon to address the nation on, what the White House is calling, America's broken immigration system.

Fixing immigration is an issue Obama has addressed since his 2008 campaign in speeches and the like, but so far has been unable to push any legislation through Congress. With the race for 2012 just around the corner, Obama and the White House say immigration "remains a priority." Tuesday Obama will speak at Chamizal National Park, the first president to do so since Lyndon Johnson, standing just yards from Juarez, Mexico along the border fence.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gave reporters a small glimpse Monday of what the president will be touching on, saying Obama is committed to comprehensive reform. "We weren't able to achieve it in the first part of this term - the president's term, but it remains a priority of the president." (read more)

President Obama is reiterating his "commitment to comprehensive immigration reform," and hopes to overhaul the system during his time in office.

But Congressman Dan Lungren, a California Republican and member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, says he sees red flags in that statement.

"The word ‘comprehensive' has become a code word for amnesty," said Lungren during a Saturday interview on Fox News.

Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen joined the debate with his own twist on the dictionary, telling Fox News, "amnesty is code for not getting things done."

Cohen says one example of inaction is the DREAM Act, formally known as the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act. The DREAM Act provides a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants through college attendance or military service. The measure passed in the House but failed in the Senate on a procedural vote in the 111th Congress.

Cohen blames Senate Republicans, saying they "killed the DREAM Act." (read more)

Frustrated by what they see as a lack of government enforcement and support, some states are taking illegal immigration into their own hands, considering a variety of legislation and action at local levels.

Several states, including Utah and Michigan have been debating immigration legislation. And now, the chairman of Prince William County, Virginia, Corey Stewart, is suing the Department of Homeland Security, seeking records about illegal immigrants in his county. Stewart and former Justice Department official Tom Dupree talked to Fox News on Sunday about the limitations and frustrations playing out across the country when it comes to illegal immigration.

Stewart believes the federal government isn't doing its job when it comes to managing illegal immigrants. In his county, Stewart has requested "information about illegal immigrants under the Freedom of Information Act" requests that he says have been "stonewalled" at the federal level. (read more)

The nation's first homeland security secretary said Tuesday that critics of immigration reform need to "get over it," and warned that Americans shouldn't be so "arrogant" as to believe that "everybody that comes across the border wants to be an American citizen."

Speaking at Georgetown University to celebrate the eight anniversary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, former secretary Tom Ridge said he hopes "sometime in the future" the U.S. government takes a serious look at immigration policy "in general," even though “it's the third rail of contemporary politics right now."

"At some point in time you've got to say to yourself, 'We're not sending 12 million people home,'” the former Republican governor of Pennsylvania said. “Let's get over it. ... We're not going to send them home, so let's just figure out a way to legitimize their status, create a new system, and I think that will add more to border security than any number of fences we can put across the border."

Many in the crowd erupted in applause.

Ridge offered two key steps for immigration reform, the first being, "Don't think that everybody that comes across the border wants to be an American citizen." (read more)

As debate intensifies over a new Arizona proposal requiring hospital patrons to show proof of legal U.S. residency, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the controversial measure is just one piece of a larger effort to curb illegal immigration.

"These admission medical facilities are being flooded with people, and the public here is outraged that they have to wait in the back of the line, insurance rates go up-they want something done about it, and that's just one piece of the puzzle," Arpaio said on America's News HQ Sunday.

"What's wrong with asking for someone's identification?" Arpaio asked. "I don't see any problem to see if someone's here legally or illegally."

Others do. Dr. George Pauk, former co-chair of the Arizona Coalition for a State and National Health Plan, said the state measure not only addresses a nonissue, but it also adds an unnecessary burden on health workers.

"It'd be a disaster for the people of Arizona to enact [this bill]," Pauk said. "It would criminalize health care workers like nurses, doctors--make them work as immigration officers to investigate patients and to report them to immigration authorities. It is completely unethical for us to do that." (read more)

U.S. Congressman Ed Royce (R-Ca.) thinks he has enough support in the House of Representatives to pass new immigration legislation very similar to the controversial and much-discussed Arizona law, S.B.1070.

The meat of Royce's bill would allow local police, at the state level, to enforce federal immigration laws- something they are not presently permitted to do. "We're basically giving them the option, if you're in local law enforcement, to assist," said Royce on Friday morning's edition of America's Newsroom.

Rep. Royce's district covers western and northern Orange County, California, and does not share a border with Mexico. Still, he fears attacks on American citizens and border patrol agents in areas that do will worsen in the future, since Mexican authorities no longer have control on their side.

"The government of Mexico is losing control of this area, it's being handed over to basically the cartels, and so we have to respond" Royce explained. "And we need to give the border patrol the tools they need to do it." (read more)