1. Phoenix Business Journal: “Mayors group condemns AZ immigration law”
2. Arizona Republic: “Arizona immigration law could overwhelm state’s court system, attorneys say”
3. Phoenix Business Journal: “Brewer to Goddard: Let Bouma handle immigration case”
4. Arizona Republic: “Brewer asks Goddard not to defend immigration law”
5. Arizona Republic: “Chino Valley backs amended Ariz. immigration law“
Arizona Republic: “Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, announced Saturday that he’ll work to see Arizona’s controversial new immigration law mirrored in a third of the country. Pearce said he is working with representatives in the 18 other states to draft the legislation.”
See “Immigration law’s broad wording has legal Arizona residents worried.”
Arizona Republic: “Bankruptcy doesn’t always work as advertised. For starters, not all debts – including student loans, some tax liabilities and child-support obligations – can easily be shed, if at all. Also, not all applicants can qualify for the type of filing they want, such as debtor-friendly Chapter 7 plans that are restricted to people with relatively modest incomes. Besides, there are many nuances in the law that can thwart debtors and creditors – intricacies of which even some attorneys might not be aware.”
Arizona Republic: “Even as the Arizona Department of Public Safety was preparing to shut down the statewide photo speed-enforcement system, a top commander was lobbying legislators to approve a photo-enforcement bill giving DPS full control of the program, raising questions about the department’s intentions.”
Free Republic: “Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico’s border to metro Phoenix. The area once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers. . . . [Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu] said he no longer has control over parts of his county. ‘We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don’t have the resources here locally to fight this,’ he said . . . .”