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Prosecutor: Mexico trying to dismantle Arizona smuggling law [illegals charged as conspirators]
KVOA News 4 ^ | May 09, 2006

Posted on 05/09/2006 3:58:29 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

PHOENIX A prosecutor seeking to convict dozens of illegal immigrants for illegally crossing into Arizona has accused the Mexican government of organizing legal efforts to dismantle a state law targeting immigrant smugglers.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas says the Mexican government has arranged for a lawyer to challenge his legal opinion that illegal immigrants suspected of using smugglers to cross into the state can be charged as conspirators.

The lawyer also argues that the state can't regulate immigration.

Thomas has asked the U-S State Department to protest the Mexican government's alleged involvement in the case.

A call to the office of the Carlos Flores Vizcarra, the Mexican consul general in Phoenix whom Thomas has accused of seeking to weaken the state law, wasn't immediately returned late this morning.

Forty-eight illegal immigrants were charged as conspirators under the 9-month-old law.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; bush; congress; corruption; coyotes; illegals; mexico; smugglers
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"The lawyer also argues that the state can't regulate immigration."

It's ILLEGAL immigration and SOMEBODY has to do it!

1 posted on 05/09/2006 3:58:31 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


2 posted on 05/09/2006 4:02:02 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: holdonnow

Here's another one...


3 posted on 05/09/2006 4:02:26 PM PDT by CedarDave (Gen. McCaffrey: "There is a rapidly growing animosity" among U.S. troops in Iraq toward the press...)
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To: LongElegantLegs; radar101; RamingtonStall; engrpat; HamiltonFan; Draco; TexasCajun; ...

Paging Presidente Bush!


4 posted on 05/09/2006 4:05:54 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Pay your TAXES-millions of illegal aliens are depending on you!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
If only the Mexican lawyers could do something about the rampant drug cartels and crime in Mexico, instead of harassing US CITIZENS on our own soil.
5 posted on 05/09/2006 4:09:57 PM PDT by ConsentofGoverned (if a sucker is born every minute, what are the voters?)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Levin just read this post word for word on his show.


6 posted on 05/09/2006 4:14:09 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: SwinneySwitch

The State Department will heretofore warn the Mexican government when Prosecutor Andrew Thomas is enforcing the laws of Arizona.


7 posted on 05/09/2006 4:16:15 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (Texas Cowboy...graduated to Glory)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Why should they not be charged as conspirators? Were they kidnapped and forced over the border?


8 posted on 05/09/2006 4:17:37 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: DLfromthedesert

Sooner or Later the Government is going to start doing their jobs or they are going to find that there are worse outcomes than losing elections due to Conservatives staying home. The KKK didn't start in a vacuum and neither did the other extremist groups over the past 200 years.

History ignored, is repeated.

RamS


9 posted on 05/09/2006 4:19:45 PM PDT by RamingtonStall (More Guns ==> Less Crime! Get your CHL today! http://www.ohioccw.org/)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas says the Mexican government has arranged for a lawyer to challenge his legal opinion that illegal immigrants suspected of using smugglers to cross into the state can be charged as conspirators.

The nation of Mexico reminds me of the 5 foot guy in high school who is always trying to pick fights with people. Take the 5 footer on, and you look bad for picking on the little guy. I think Americans are well past being fed up with this though.

10 posted on 05/09/2006 4:19:48 PM PDT by Hacksaw (Deport illegals the same way they came here - one at a time.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

bttt


11 posted on 05/09/2006 4:24:45 PM PDT by Covenantor
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To: SwinneySwitch; Mr. Mojo

They*re going to keep screwing around until Americans take matters into their own hands, and I don*t really think that Fox wants a war on his hands! It*s apparent that our treasonous government isn*t going to do anything. It*s bad enough that they don*t help, but when they go out of their way to keep us from doing what they WON*T do, it*s time to change our "leaders!"


12 posted on 05/09/2006 5:10:30 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (NO GUEST WORKER PLAN! IT IS REALLY AMNESTY, SHAMNESTY OR SCAMNESTY - IT IS THE SELL OUT OF AMERICA!!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

I still think they ought to charge them with multiple crimes. It's harder to fight. There are so many laws out there.


13 posted on 05/09/2006 5:29:42 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: SwinneySwitch

Anyone tired of the mexican government running this country yet?


14 posted on 05/09/2006 5:32:15 PM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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To: stopem

Hell I don't remember voting for the mexican government anyone see any small print we weren't aware of on the ballot?

So who in the mexican govt is on the ballot in Nov?


15 posted on 05/09/2006 5:38:38 PM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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To: RamingtonStall
Sooner or Later the Government is going to start doing their jobs or they are going to find that there are worse outcomes than losing elections due to Conservatives staying home.

It's beginning to look as if we'll have to wait until at least 2009 for that to start happening.

16 posted on 05/09/2006 5:45:45 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: SwinneySwitch

Hmmmmm, Mexican Government meddling in the Internal affairs of the USA. Just exactly which country is the BANANNA REPULIIC in this Picture????????

RamS


17 posted on 05/09/2006 5:56:56 PM PDT by RamingtonStall (More Guns ==> Less Crime! Get your CHL today! http://www.ohioccw.org/)
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To: RamingtonStall

Ooops,
Sorry for the Spelling. I will have to learn to control my MAD!

Hmmmmm, The Mexican Government meddling in the Internal affairs of one of the States of the USA.

Just exactly which country is the BANANNA REPUBLIC in this Picture????????

RamS


18 posted on 05/09/2006 5:58:48 PM PDT by RamingtonStall (More Guns ==> Less Crime! Get your CHL today! http://www.ohioccw.org/)
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To: SwinneySwitch
For more on this, see Peter Schey working with Mexican government. That's the lawyer Mexico brought in.
19 posted on 05/09/2006 11:24:40 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com (http://lonewacko.com/blog)
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To: SwinneySwitch
We need to hire our own lawyers to file suit against the Mexican gov. for pollution from the 1000's of agricultural fires that send smoke into the US each year. I'm hacking up smoke as I post.
20 posted on 05/10/2006 4:31:19 AM PDT by wolfcreek
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