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Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law PHOENIX (AP) – A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton shifts the immigration debate to the courts and sets up a lengthy legal battle that may not be decided until the Supreme Court weighs in. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer said the state will likely appeal the ruling and seek to get the judge’s order overturned. But for now, opponents of the law have prevailed: The provisions that most angered opponents will not take effect, including
sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also delayed parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places – a move aimed at day laborers. In addition, the judge blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants. “Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while
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(From left) Maria Ramirez, Joseline Saragoza, 9, and Marcela Saragoza, all of Phoenix, cry as they celebrate at the Arizona capitol Wednesday in Phoenix, shortly after portions of Arizona’s new immigration law were blocked. their status is checked,� Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in her decision. She said the controversial sections should be put on hold until the courts resolve the issues. Other provisions of the law, many of them slight revisions to existing Arizona
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kind of information “stovepiping� have produced the opposite problem – amassing so much data that officials complain it’s hard to make sense of it, and as the WikiLeaks incident shows, keep it secret. Both intelligence officials and outside experts suggested that agency chiefs may push to limit access to electronic “portals� that have provided growing data access to intelligence officers, diplomats and troops around the world. And others predicted tighter scrutiny by an administration that has already pushed aggressively to investigate and prosecute leakers. On the other hand, lawmakers on Capitol Hill worry the leaking incident will give the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies an excuse to go back to old ways of holding back some information as “too sensitive� to be shared.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Jon Tester says the lawmakers who oversee the budget of the post office will block a proposal to reduce mail deliveries to five days a week. The Montana Democrat said eliminating Saturday deliveries would be a
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn’t know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents. Julian Assange didn’t say whether he meant he had no idea who leaked the documents or whether his organization simply could not be sure. But he did say the added layer of secrecy helps protect the site’s sources from spy agencies and hostile corporations.
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sist federal immigration agents and lessen border woes such as the heavy costs for educating, jailing and providing health care for illegal immigrants. Arizona is the busiest gateway into the country for illegal immigrants.
Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, attends a debate in London Tuesday.
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similar action elsewhere, prompted a boycott against Arizona and led an unknown number of illegal immigrants to leave the state. Lawyers for the state contend the law was a constitutionally sound attempt by Arizona to as-
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War leaks may spur a return to silence WASHINGTON (AP) – Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation’s secrets. Some intelligence veterans say it’s time to rethink how widely classified material is shared at lower levels or, at the very least, to step up monitoring of the people who are given access. “Frankly, we all knew this was going to happen,� says former CIA Director Michael Hayden. He predicts “a new emphasis on protecting.� The intelligence failures that led to the attacks of 9/11 were blamed on government agencies hoarding information instead of sharing it, missing crucial clues that could have headed off al-Qaida’s strikes. The changes that reduced this
immigration statute, took effect at 12:01 a.m. today. The law was signed by Brewer in April and immediately revived the national debate on immigration, making it a hot-button issue in the midterm elections. The law has inspired
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