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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Judge orders Western Union to submit wire data for Arizona probe

PHOENIX (AP) -- A judge has ordered Western Union to provide Arizona authorities with data on wire transactions to recipients in the Mexican state of Sonora as part of investigations into drug and human smuggling.

Judge James Keppel of Maricopa County Superior Court issued the order after state officials and the company could not agree on the state's authority to compel disclosure of the data, Attorney General Terry Goddard's Office said Monday.

Western Union had refused to honor a subpoena for the data, Goddard's office said.

Excerpts of Keppel's order released by Goddard's office stated that the judge found that the state had authority to request the data, that the data was relevant to investigation of racketeering offenses and that Goddard's office was "demonstrating appropriate respect for the privacy of the transactions involved."

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