PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona legislators are moving to toughen and broaden state laws against border-related crimes such as human smuggling and trafficking.
 Sens. Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, and Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, hear testimony Monday from various state and local law enforcement officials and prosecutors about increasing violence along the border due to drug trafficking and human smuggling. Paton, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he asked for the presentation, including a show-and-tell of seized weapons, ammunition and drugs, to educate colleagues about the need for changes in state laws he will seek later this session. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer) |
Consideration of some of the legislation has been delayed by lawmakers’ focus on budget problems, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jonathan Paton said increasing violence, kidnappings and other circumstances warrant a strong push against the problem when an embargo on non-budget bills is lifted.
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bill r florida wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:07 AM:
a police officer once told me that dead people don't talk. its time we take things into our hands and protect our freedom family and property "
Rossi wrote on Feb 25, 2009 4:13 PM:
How about supporting American laws and turning in illegal aliens to ICE... That would be a great start to put a damper on human smiggling. And these clowns call themselves leaders? "
Al wrote on Feb 25, 2009 12:00 PM:
The longer i live here the less i want to live here i was born here in Douglas and i had a chance to by a house in this town but this town i call it a cockroach-town because it comes alive at night and as i continue to live here and learn of judge brain , i realized that i don't want to live in a town that could let a man get a way with what he did think what our system did to a man who terorizrd this town and gave it a bad name and to the Mexico is a joke that we the U.S.A. when it comes to corruption is the same as them the old west ain't dead all it did was is get a Walmart "