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Texas Republicans add Arizona-like residency checks to platform
07:58 PM CDT on Saturday, June 12, 2010
By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News
gjeffers@ dallasnews.com

Texas Republicans voted Saturday to call for a state law to require local police officers to verify that people arrested on suspicion of a crime are in the country legally.

[b]If Republicans have their way, the Legislature would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to “intentionally or knowinglyâ€