News From the Border

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.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Senate approves fix of flaw in immigrant-smuggling law

The Associated Press

Published: 04.20.2007

The Arizona Senate approved a proposal Thursday that's intended to fix a flaw in a state law targeting immigrant smugglers.

Some authorities have complained that they have found it hard to hold illegal immigrant witnesses to the crime when they haven't been accused of working as smugglers or charged with state crimes.

The bill extends the time state authorities can hold such "material witnesses" from three days to seven days.

"I want to see convictions of smugglers go up, and (prosecutors) told me this would fix it," said Republican Rep. Jonathan Paton of Tucson, sponsor of the proposal and co-author of the 2005 smuggling law.

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