Court to Settle Petition Fight ; Immigration-Enforcement Push Renewed in Arizona

The Washington Times › December 28, 2006

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The Arizona Supreme Court will decide next month whether a petition brought by a citizens group seeking to end of a policy barring Phoenix police officers from enforcing federal immigration laws will ever go before voters.

Members of "Protect Our City" have called for an end to the policy, calling instead for it to be changed to require police officers, along with all other city employees, to assist federal officials in enforcing U.S. immigration law.

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Court to Settle Petition Fight ; Immigration-Enforcement Push Renewed in Arizona

But Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Janet Barton pulled the petition from the Nov. 7 ballot, saying in September that a city charter provision giving petition backer...

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