Illegal immigration has become a contentious issue in the state of Georgia. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants have settled in the state over the past decade...many of them illegally. The huge influx has raised the ire of people on both sides of the immigration debate. The World's Matthew Bell profiles a group of lawyers who've taken up the cause of helping immigrants - whether they are in the country legally or not.

Officers of the Cobb County, Georgia, Sheriff's Department are trained to report undocumented immigrants to federal immigration authorities. That's sparked an exodus of immigrants from the county -- and a debate over a local police force taking on a role normally reserved for the federal government. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

President Bush was unable to pass his immigration reform bill this summer, but he's still cracking down on illegal immigration. The Bush Administration now says it's working within existing laws to fight illegal immigration. And US Latino communities are feeling the effects. The World's Jason Margolis reports from North Carolina, home to nearly 650,000 Latinos.

Jesse Hardman reports from Paterson, New Jersey, a city sometimes known as Little Lima. The large Peruvian community there has rallied to organize its own relief operation to help survivors of the earthquake that hit Peru two weeks ago.

2,000 Iraqi citizens leave their country every day, many of them former translators and contractors for the US government. Only a few of them have made it to the United States. Reporter Jessie Graham speaks with one of those refugees who's living in New York.

Correspondent Amy Costello reports on a boycott of the Saigon Grill restaurants in New York. The protesters are Chinese delivery men who've been fired from those eateries. They say they were paid as little as $1.60 an hour.

A group of disabled and elderly immigrants in the US is suing the government to regain lost federal benefits. The law says refugees must become citizens within seven years in order to get those benefits, but the process has been bogged down since 9/11. Correspondent Susan Phillips of station WHYY has more.

More than 350 illegal immigrant workers were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New Bedford, Massachusetts, this week. The World's Ruxandra Guidi reports on the fall-out from the raid and the effect it is having on the workers' families.

Under a program that targets illegal immigrants working in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security recently raided a pork processing plant in North Carolina. Twenty-one workers were detained. The World's Matthew Bell reports on the story from Tar Heel, North Carolina.

Susan Phillips of station WHYY in Philadelphia reports on a group of Mexican immigrants who send money back to their home village in Mexico. Such financial remittances are common. The difference is that these immigrants are taking steps to make sure the money is used for the good of the entire village community.