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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.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Pruitt's, day-labor supporters reach truce

Michael Clancy
The Arizona Republic
Photo by Jack Kurtz/The Arizona Republic
Jan. 5, 2008 12:00 AM

The two sides that have been picketing and counterpicketing at a central Phoenix furniture store are backing down this weekend in hopes of diffusing tensions in their confrontations over undocumented laborers.

Michael Sensing, a co-owner of M.D. Pruitt's at 35th Street and Thomas Road, said Friday that he will suspend, for this weekend at least, the hiring of off-duty sheriff's deputies to patrol his parking lot. He said enough on-duty Phoenix officers had been present in recent weeks to maintain order.

"We want to go back to selling furniture and be done with it," Sensing said.

But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Friday that he intends to keep up the patrol at and around the store, which has become a ground zero in the illegal immigration debate. It has drawn scores of protesters - those supporting the congregation of undocumented day laborers peddling their services, as well as those opposing such rights - in recent weekends.

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