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Border security panel to hold 1st meeting
A special committee of the Arizona Legislature devoted to examining security along the state's border with Mexico will hold its first meeting Wednesday.
National Guard leaving border in June
National Guard troops set up along the Arizona border will leave as planned the second week of June. Arizona National Guard Adjutant General Hugo Salazar says the mission along the southwestern border has gone well and troops helped the Department of Homeland Security watch the border while gathering intelligence against criminal cartels.
Lawmakers want state guard to help when National Guard is gone
Providing Arizona’s governor with an armed force that operates separately from the National Guard — and thus from federal control — is vital to the state’s continuing defense, some Republican lawmakers insist.
Harper proposes state-sanctioned militia to patrol border
Sen. Jack Harper, a Republican from Surprise, said he plans to introduce legislation next year that would create a government-sanctioned militia that would be allowed to patrol the border to observe illegal activity and report it to enforcement authorities.
Brewer: no action on S1070 today, to announce border security plan instead
Ariz. Jan Brewer isn't taking action Thursday on a controversial immigration enforcement bill but she will be announcing a border security plan.
