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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.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

No prosecutions under sanctions law until March

Mary Jo Pitzl

The Arizona Republic
Jan. 17, 2008 12:00 AM

There will be no prosecutions under the employer-sanctions law until after March 1, under an agreement reached in federal court Wednesday, while a federal judge promised to rule on the landmark hiring law by early February.

The agreement buys another month before any employer could be charged with knowingly or intentionally hiring an illegal worker, and buys more time for U.S. District Court Judge Neil V. Wake to weigh the merits of the two-week-old law.

But because it still applies to any complaints filed as of Jan. 1, it gives "cold comfort" to the business and civil-rights groups that are fighting the law, said attorney Jonathan Weissglass, representing a trio of Hispanic civil-rights groups.

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