Debate expected at Legislature on immigration bill

Posted: March 23, 2010 01:12 PM CDT

Updated: March 23, 2010 01:13 PM CDT





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PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona House is expected on Tuesday to debate a wide-ranging immigration proposal that would criminalize the presence of illegal border-crossers in the state.

If approved and signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer, the bill also would make Arizona the only state to criminalize the presence of the state's estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants through an
expansion of its trespassing law.

It would prohibit police departments from having policies that restrict the enforcement of federal immigration law and require officers to try to determine people's immigration status when
there's reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally.

The state Senate approved a similar bill in February.


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