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Arizona May Require Hospitals to Check Citizenship

PHOENIX - Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether patients are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical professionals who fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law. The medical industry ripped the bill...

Tea Party Activists Rally on Arizona-Mexico Border

HEREFORD, Ariz. (Aug. 15) -- Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona's controversial immigration law and hear from more than a dozen conservative speakers, many of them candidates running for office in crowded Republican primaries. Several speaking to...

Ariz. Governor: Most Illegal Immigrants Are Smuggling Drugs

PHOENIX (June 25) - Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday that most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are being used to transport drugs across the border, an assertion that critics slammed as exaggerated and racist. Brewer said the motivation of "a lot" of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but...

Background on arizona immigration

The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and thus often referred to simply as Arizona SB 1070) is a legislative Act in the U.S.

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