Arizona

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<p><strong>New America Media</strong><strong></strong></p>
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<p><strong>PHOENIX</strong> — People on both sides of the immigration debate in Arizona are skeptical of new research that shows a national decrease in the flow of illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States. But there is one thing they are certain of: undocumented immigrants are steering clear of the border state.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; History was made the other day in Arizona. A Republican-led citizen group turned in a record setting 18,315 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office in a recall petition with the infamous Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce targeted for removal from office.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The 18,315 is over double the 7,756 signatures required by law for a recall election.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another Latino has been shot dead in an Arizona home invasion – and the national media is once again ignoring the story. It happened on May 5 and the news is only now surfacing outside the Arizona media through citizen journalism on blogs, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to the <em>Arizona</em><em> Daily Star.</em>..</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Last month marked the 150th&nbsp;anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter, marking the start of the Civil War. Days before in his Inaugural Address President Abraham Lincoln summed up the differences between the south and the north saying, “One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.”</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gov. Jan Brewer plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a federal court’s preliminary injunction that blocked major portions of a controversial state immigration law from going into effect. But whether the nation’s highest tribunal will consider ruling on SB 1070 is a whole other story, according to legal experts.</p>