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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer angrily denounced the Obama administration’s decision Monday to strip the state’s police agencies of special immigration arrest powers, saying it was like telling the state to “drop dead” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision upholding a key provision of Arizona’s immigration law. “I was shocked. I was outraged. I thought, you know, this is politics at its best,” Brewer told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren in an interview Monday night. “It’s just unconscionable. What they said to Arizona is: ‘Drop dead, Arizona, drop dead, and go away. We’re going to ignore you,’” the Republican...

Homeland Security to visit, eye crime crackdown WASHINGTON - Homeland security chief Janet Napolitano has dispatched her top cop to work with local law enforcement in U.S-Mexico border cities on a counteroffensive aimed at Mexico's insurgent drug cartels. Napolitano announced Thursday that former Alabama Sheriff Edmund M. "Ted" Sexton is spending two weeks with sheriffs and police from Brownsville to San Diego as she telegraphed Obama administration preparations for a sweeping crackdown that's expected to enlist National Guard troops and agents from across the federal government. "This is going to be a major effort," she said. "We are doing a...