Arizona Republic: “Arizona ends its groundbreaking speed enforcement program Thursday with the expiration of a company’s two-year contract that put dozens of cameras along Phoenix-area freeways and other highways across the state. Panned by critics as intended more as a way to generate revenue than improve safety, the contract that the Department of Public Safety awarded Scottsdale-base Redflex Traffic Systems expires at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.>
1. The Daily Caller: “Florida may have Arizona-like anti-illegal immigration law by August”
2. Arizona Republic: “Lawsuit to limit human-smuggling prosecutions revived”
3. Ann Althouse: Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney’s jail policy is to report to ICE every new inmate who cannot produce proof he or she is a legal resident.
4. Arizona Republic: Phoenix Law Enforcement Associations says Phoenix Police Chief Jack “Harris take on SB 1070 violated policy.” The PLEA is asking for an investigation of Chief Harris to determine if he violated policy in speaking out against SB 1070 or filling a brief in an anti-SB 1070 law suit.
5. CBS News: “Poll: Support for Arizona Immigration Law Hits 57 Percent”
6. Former NY Mayor Ed Koch: “Obama Must Rethink His Immigration Position”
“The President glosses over the fact that if we are not able to police our borders, as soon as the current 11 million illegals are given amnesty, a new crop of illegals will be walking across our borders.”
7 . Arizona Republic: “Brewer: Ad campaign to combat misinformation on Arizona’s immigration law“
1. Wall St. Journal: “Obama’s Immigration Fakery”
“In 2007, then-Sen. Obama helped derail an immigration bill he claimed to support. He’s no more serious about a bipartisan bill today.”
2. Arizona Republic: “Mich. AG’s brief to support Arizona immigration law”
3. Arizona Republic: “Mesa prepares to enforce Arizona immigration law”
4. Arizona Republic: “Arizona officials probe false SB 1070 mailings”
5. Arizona Republic: “Arizona immigration law stirs MLB debate for 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix”
6. ABA Journal: “ABA to File Second Ariz. Immigration Law Brief, This One Weighing in on DOJ Suit“
Arizona Republic: “Maricopa County Manager David Smith has forbidden county employees from talking with Chief Sheriff’s Deputy David Hendershott after a weekend missive Hendershott sent to the media threatening to divulge criminal investigations and grand jury testimony about county officials.”
Phoenix New Times: “If medical marijuana is legalized in Arizona, 66,000 people would register to be recipients of prescribed pot — says a legislative budget assessment of what the effect would be on the state.”