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State Police Sign Immigration Training Agreement

Arkansas State Police troopers are to be trained by federal immigration agents on how to examine and detect forged identity documents.

State police spokesman Bill Sadler said Tuesday the agency signed an agreement the previous day with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train troopers in the field and radio operators. Sadler said troopers would be able to examine documents "that would normally be carried by a citizen of Mexico" to find fakes. Sadler said troopers would leave further investigation to federal immigration agents.

Sadler said the state did not discuss having a task force similar to one making immigration arrests in northwest Arkansas.

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Illegal-alien plan called a bad idea
BY SETH BLOMELEY
Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/222162/

A news conference by a group that advocates for illegal aliens turned mildly confrontational Monday when opponents attended and alleged that contractors are driving off legal workers by hiring illegal aliens who work cheaply. The intruding group held signs calling such employers criminals.

In another development regarding immigration, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe said late Monday that the state signed an agreement with the federal government regarding immigration laws. The state’s proposal has been pending for months.

Few details were available, but Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said it involved only document training and not enforcement of federal immigration laws.

The Arkansas Friendship Coalition held the news conference in the Capitol to tout a study by an Oklahoma firm on the “economic hardshipâ€