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Arizona governor Jan Brewer met with President Barack Obama in June 2010 in the wake of SB 1070, to discuss immigration and border security issues. [1]The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and commonly referred to as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that was the broadest and strictest anti ...
Proposition 203 was the fourth time that medical marijuana was on the ballot in Arizona. Arizona voters passed medical marijuana initiatives twice in the state, in 1996 and 1998. Due to a technical error, however, in the wording of these laws, they failed to effectively protect medical marijuana patients from arrest.
The referendum was passed by voters in a special election on May 18, 2010. The measure amended Article IX of the Arizona State Constitution , raising the state sales tax from 5.6% to 6.6%, and included a clause which would automatically repeal the increase on May 31, 2013.
There aren't a lot of people outside of Arizona who seem to support what is likely the nation's toughest immigration law. The outrage over the legislation, which allows state police to check the ...
Editor's note: This story was updated on July 29 to correct a quote from Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.) U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton threw a monkey wrench into the deeply ...
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070, which supporters dubbed the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act". [1] It made it a state misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law; authorized state and local law enforcement of federal immigration laws; and penalized those ...
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, the measure's champion, says that because the federal government has failed to "secure the border" and stop illegal immigration, the state must take enforcement into its ...
On May 11, 2010, the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, signed into law Arizona House Bill 2281. [3] The bill was written by Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, stating the terms that no program: "1. Promote the overthrow of the United States government 2. Promote resentment toward a race or class of people 3.