mm AUG US 500 IN CEI hedu FF Su A2 Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Arizona Daily Star HOWARD FISCHER PHOTOS, CAPITOL MEDIA Rep. Analise Ortiz consults with fellow Democrat, House Minority Leader Lupe Contreras, after Republican House Speaker Pro-tem Travis Grantham leagues for not going to the cut her off when she complained about the decision not to allow spectators in the House gallery. FROM THE FRONT PAGE SUBSCRIPTION RATES (includes print delivery and full digital access) Mon-Sun: Wed-Sun: All other frequencies of delivery Digital only (excludes print delivery): Single copy: $3 daily, $4 Sunday. Print subscriptions include unlimited access to all digital content, including tucson.com, e-edition and mobile and tablet apps. To activate your digital access, go to tucson.com/activate.
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the measure acknowledge there will be costs associated with arrests, prosecution and incar- ceration of those police arrest for crossing the border illegally. That includes an estimated $41 million in law enforcement costs and $16.6 million for incarcera- tion in just the first six months. Supporters dispute that the proposal, HCR 2060, does not have a new tax to pick up the tab. Instead, they cite figures from the Federation for Ameri- can Immigration Reform, which opposes illegal immigration, which put the cost of illegal im- migration in Arizona at $3.2 bil- lion. But legislative budget analysts question some of the savings, pointing out that state agen- cies that provide health care and other benefits already verify the legal status of those who get cer- tain benefits.
The debate at the House cen- tered on whether state and local police should be authorized to arrest those who are crossing the border anywhere other than an official port of entry. A major question was whether it can be enforced in a race-neutral fash- ion. The legislation says police could arrest someone only if they have That includes actually witness- ing someone entering the United States illegally or if having a re- cording of the event. There is, however, also a catch- all provision to allow police to make an arrest if they have other constitutionally sufficient indicia of probable That is not defined in the legislation. Rep.
Patty Contreras, D-Phoe- nix, who was born in Yuma, said there is a history of racial profil- ing in Arizona. She told colleagues of being taken with her seven siblings on road trips by her parents. On one of those trips, Contreras said, her father, John, was stopped by an international border when you and 4 am. to see people coming police in Quartzsite, about 100 are not allowed to do miles north of the border. was an American citizen, son, said her point that this people you were talking about, he was born in California, he was racially motivated is underlined standing on the other side of the a Korean War she said, by the fact that many people who fence that were released from a noting he was also a business- have been crossing the border highway (in Mexico) and made it man and a former vice mayor of illegally those this legislation to the U.S.
in less than 10 min- Somerton where they were liv- seeks to allow police to arrest he said. Those include ing, and an American Legion post are coming from 150 differ- people who are commander. these things mat- Diaz said read that includes said. ter to the Contreras people coming from continued. mattered to like Kazakhstan.
the officer was that there was a brown-skinned man driving a of you in this Diaz said. points ready to go and station wagon filled with a bunch of little brown Others, however, insisted the legislation be used for ra- from several Democrats who said only thing the measure is de- cial profiling ring hollow given they do go to the border reg- signed to do is tighten up border that HCR 2060 also provides im- ularly at least in part because security, especially in the face munity to any state or local gov- they have family on both sides, of what they say has been the ernment entity or official from going back to the days when Ari- Biden failure being sued civilly for enforcing zona was actually part of Mexico. to enforce federal law, including any provision in the law. existing statutes that make it a federal crime to enter this coun- crafted the measure, said that majority of our lives crossing be- try at other than a port of entry. misrepresents it.
is not about a race, or any said Rep. Barbara lice discrimination in the son. I need to go on a Parker, R-Mesa. is about said the Peoria Republican. crime the crime of crossing And Rep.
Lupe Diaz, R-Ben- ent countries around the world. raped and Gillette look whiter than many he said. had your talking But Rep. Cesar Aguilar, want further D-Phoenix, said the claims the House Speaker Ben Toma, who here have actually spent the is no immunity for po- Rep. Alma Hernandez, D-Tuc- He argued there are other safe- take videos when literally guards.
For example, he said, police have to have to believe that someone en- tered the country at other than a port of entry. That, said Toma, is a higher standard than exists elsewhere where police need only to ques- tion someone. He said that is where this measure is markedly different than SB 1070, the 2010 legisla- tion that the U.S. Supreme Court partially struck down, which was designed to give police anywhere in Arizona the power to question those they believe are not in the country legally. honestly cannot be re- ferred to as the me your Toma said.
Rep. John Gillette, R-King- man, chided Democratic col- border on Monday when House Republican leaders arranged an early morning visit between 1 through the border. get to see the none of you came to see it, none of you wanted to see it, That drew a sharp response of us who are sitting tween Tucson and said field trip and play dress-up and there almost every Parker said the bill about keeping people out but only en- suring that they come here le- gally. a second-generation Ital- ian immigrant, I love the stories my mother said of her parents and grandparents who came through a legal port at Ellis Is- land to work in the coal mines of she said. her family taught her to obtain citizenship and learn But Rep.
Lorena Austin, D-Mesa, said missing from that story is the histori- cal perspective that the federal laws were designed to make sure certain people white people came to this coun- try and had the opportunities afforded to Austin said there were deportations of more than a million Mexicans in the 1930s, including citizens. The entire debate got off to a rocky start after Toma ordered that no one be allowed in the House gallery to observe, claim- ing concerns prompted by the shameful and illegally dis- ruptive conduct by Democrats and their leftist Members of LUCHA and other foes of the bill had staged a demonstration a week ago in the Senate gallery before being removed. As to claimed conduct by Democrats, that apparently re- fers to shouting that occurred when House Republicans last month initially blocked a vote on repealing 1864 near total ban on abortion. Ortiz on Tuesday accused Re- publicans of a double standard, saying they allowed tion extremists to pack the gal- Howard Fischer is a veteran journalist who has been reporting since 1970 and covering state politics and the Legislature since 1982. Follow him on formerly known as Twitter, and Threads at or email Border From A1 one of the things that the judge can really point to that everybody is aware of that he just denies this and can use that as a strong basis for his Trump is set to be sen- tenced on July 11 by Judge Juan M.
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saw one of my lawyers the other day on televi- sion saying, no, you want to do to a former president. said, you know, beg for anything. just the way it He will have the option to address the judge at his sentencing hearing though he is not required to do so, and some legal experts have said it would be inadvisable for him to speak. He did not testify in his own defense at the trial, something he later suggested had to do with concerns that prosecutors would try to catch him in a trivial falsehood. he turns around and blames the court, attacks prosecutors, decries this as a witch hunt, lies you should have no misgiving: There will be consequences and there should be con- said Jeremy Saland, a former assistant district attorney in Man- hattan.
In addition, constant attacks on the prosecutors, judge and court system and his ag- gressive trial strategy outright denying both claims of an extramarital affair by p*rn actor Stormy Daniels and involvement in the subsequent scheme to buy her silence would make any change of tune at his sentencing seem disin- genuous. see any real benefit of him speaking at sentencing because even if he did say something, saying the exact opposite outside the courtroom and the judge is not unaware of Cohen said. To be sure, there are multiple other factors that could tilt against a prison sentence ap- parent lack of contrition notwithstanding. Merchan could conclude, for in- stance, that a strong societal interest against having a former, and po- tentially future, president in jail. as a judge and a prosecutor, you have to look at the proverbial scoreboard and say, And that score- board here is a permanent brand that see on the side of cattle of a big fat for Saland said.
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