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PHOENIX — A state lawmaker and others active in border issues plan to ask voters to punish employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers and force police to question people they stop about whether they're here legally. Although there is already an employer-sanctions bill pending in the Legislature, with an uncertain legislative future and potential for a veto, Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, and a group of like minds have decided to take their case directly to the people. The first initiative would yank any state licenses of companies found guilty even once of filing a false statement that they do not...

By Michael Marizco ARIZONA DAILY STAR Federal agents pulled the bodies of an additional four people out of the desert this past weekend, pushing the death toll in Arizona to at least 111 for this federal fiscal year. So far this fiscal year, which runs Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 96 of the dead were found within the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector. The first to be found was spotted by a Border Patrol pilot near Three Points about 11 a.m. Friday, said sector spokesman Jim Hawkins. A second was found Saturday when a group of seven who had been...