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Last Updated on Friday, 11 February 2011 01:55 Written by rslcpol Friday, 11 February 2011 01:55
From The Herald:
Going on the offensive, the state on Thursday sued the federal government, charging it has failed to meet its legal responsibility to secure the border.
The move comes in the form of a counterclaim to the original lawsuit filed last year by the Obama administration challenging enactment of SB 1070.
Attorneys from the Department of Justice charged the Arizona law, designed largely to give state and local police more power to detain and arrest illegal immigrants, was illegally infringing on the exclusive right of the federal government to control immigration. And a federal judge agreed, at least in part, by barring the state from enforcing key sections.