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July 15, 2010
CONGRESSSIONAL CANDIDATES JD HAYWORTH/JON MCCAIN/JIM DEAKIN DEBATES S. Two long-awaited debates between AZ Senate candidates former Congressman J D Hayworth, incumbent John McCain have been scheduled at 7 pm, July 16 in Phoenix and July 17 in Tucson. KTVK Channel 3 is sponsoring the July 16 event. PBS Channel in Tucson is sponsoring the July 17 event. Candidate Jim Deakin will also participate in the debate. More details will be announced in the future.
Congressional District 1 Republican Precinct Committeemen to Meet July 17 in Payson to hear 8 GOP Candidates: 12:30 pm. Payson High School Auditorium, 408 W Longhorn Road, Payson. Candidate statements at 2:30 pm. Q&A at 3:30 pm. Hosted by the Gila County Republican Committee. Contact Jeff Loyd, Gila County Republican Chairman.
In the first courtroom showdown over Arizona’s new immigration law, an attorney for a Phoenix police officer asked a federal judge Thursday to halt the implementation of much of the statute, saying it undermined the ability of the federal government to set foreign policy.
“We have only one nation; we can only have one immigration law,” attorney Stephen Montoya argued in a courtroom packed with more than 100 spectators. “Even though the state of Arizona believes Congress is not very competent and is inept, the state of Arizona has to live with the laws of Congress.”
The law, set to take effect July 29 unless U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton stops it, requires police to investigate the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and have reason to believe are in the country illegally. It also makes it a crime in Arizona to lack immigration documents.
Bolton took the matter under advisement after a two-hour hearing and gave no indication when she would issue a decision. She is scheduled to hear similar arguments July 22 in lawsuits filed by civil rights groups and the Obama administration.
Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox is interviewed after the Michigan Republican Party's debate at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Cox, one of five Republicans running for Michigan governor, said Michigan is the lead state backing Arizona in federal court and is joined by Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia, as well as the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Arizona law, set to take effect July 29, directs officers to question people about their immigration status during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops and if there’s a reasonable suspicion they’re in the U.S. illegally.
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