A federal judge has blocked key parts of Arizona’s strict immigration law, hours before it takes effect. The judge issued a temporary injunction against a requirement that police check the immigration status of criminal suspects they had stopped while enforcing other laws. Read the full story

Mexico’s president has told the US Congress that he is confident his country will win its fight against drug gangs with cooperation from the US. Read the full story

An anti-immigration law condemned as a licence for racial profiling is expected to come into force in Arizona within the next 48 hours. The law would be the first in the US to give police the power to stop citizens and demand proof of legal residence in the US merely on suspicion of not carrying appropriate papers. Read the full story

The use of racial profiling as a counterterrorism tool has been fatally undermined after a second white American woman was arrested over an alleged Islamist murder plot, critics of the policy said today. Read the full story

New York City’s minority population is constantly targeted by its notorious police department, as the ‘law enforcement’ agents continue to employ the so-called “stop and frisk” practices on them. Read the full story