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Gun Store Owner Who Banned Obama Supporters Says ‘Business Is Booming’

Last week, the owner of an Arizona gun shop made national headlines after it was reported that he had posted a sign and taken out a full page ad in a local newspaper that banned Obama supporters from entering his store. One week later, Cope Reynolds is cashing in on the attention. Mr. Reynolds, owner of Southwest [...]

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Feds finally end probe of controversial Arizona sheriff

Last week USA Today reported that after a four-year long, massive FBI investigation costing millions of taxpayer dollars, the Obama administration admitted that the investigation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies was dropped with absolutely no indictments. Arpaio had been a major target of liberals and the Obama administration for his aggressive [...]

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7 sentenced for sending people to Australia illegally

The ring’s leader, Nguyen Dinh Chien, 48, of Nghe An Province, got 6 years and 6 months in prison, while his six accomplices were given sentences ranging from 3 to 6 years imprisonment. They were charged with “organizing the illegal immigration of people abroad,” the court said. According to the indictment from the local prosecutor’s [...]

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Homeland Security Suspends Immigration Agreements with Arizona Police

The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police. Administration officials, speaking on condition they not be named, told reporters they expect to [...]

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5 bodies found in Ariz may be latest drug violence

PHOENIX — In the desert within 35 miles of one of the nation’s largest cities and about 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, Arizona authorities found a car ablaze with five bodies burned beyond recognition inside. The location of the smoldering car in a known smuggling corridor and the nature of the crime itself [...]

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New U.S. Census: Caucasian Babies Under One-Year-Old Are the New Minority

A new report by the U.S. Census Bureau is making waves today as a major change in the makeup of the racial and ethnic demographics of the nation have shifted. It states that more than one half of all babies under the age of one year old in the country are minorities. A minority, by [...]

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AZ man gets probation in illegal hiring case

A southern Arizona contractor who pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants was sentenced to probation Thursday in the first case in the state in which authorities pursued criminal charges instead of just fines against an employer in an illegal hiring case. Ivan Hardt, owner of Sun Dry Wall & Stucco Inc. of Sierra Vista, [...]

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Fans re-define USA to mean ‘get out of my country’

Last week, at the 4A basketball finals in San Antonio, Alamo Heights High School beat San Antonio Edison High. As the trophies were being presented, Alamo fans were overjoyed, the Edison fans were disconsolate. And then, in the crowd, fans of the victorious Alamo team broke out in a chant that horrified school officials: Alamo [...]

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A group opposed to private prisons issues a scathing report

If Arizona‘s prison population is on the decline, why does the state continue to waste money on private prisons? That’s one question the American Friends Service Committee is asking in a report it issued last week that examines Arizona’s relationship with the private-prison industry. The report also documents the industry’s abuses, safety issues, costs and [...]

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Arizona Murder Suspect Uses ‘Sovereign’ Language in Court

A man accused of twin murders in a Phoenix suburb and facing a possible death sentence used language in his initial court appearance mimicking false legal theories advanced by antigovernment “sovereign citizens.” Michael Lee Crane, 31, is charged in Maricopa County with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of armed [...]

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