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Date: 7/31/2010 7:34:03 AM Sender: VOA
Arizonans React to Court Ruling as Limited Immigration Law Takes Effect

Mike O＇Sullivan | Nogales, Arizona

Residents of the Western U.S. state of Arizona reacted Thursday to a federal judge＇s ruling  that blocked key parts of a controversial state immigration law.  

Judge Bolton temporarily blocked some of the broad powers that the law would have given local police in immigration enforcement, which under the US constitution is a federal responsibility.  The blocked measures would have allowed police to demand proof of legal residence from those stopped or arrested, when there was reasonable suspicion that they are in the country illegally.  

Arizona governor Jan Brewer has appealed the ruling, saying the U.S. government has not been doing its job.

The law＇s opponents celebrated in Phoenix and in the border town of Nogales.

At Nogales police headquarters, Captain Heriberto Zuniga sorted out the parts of the law that are blocked and those that remain in effect.   He says that not a lot will change because his department has always cooperated with the Border Patrol in reporting those who have apparently crossed the border illegally.

"We will literally have a Border Patrol vehicle at our traffic stop or at our location where we came in contact with these individuals within three to eight minutes," he said.

This border town is ground zero for illegal immigration, and Nogales senior officer Mario Morales says the hills are filled with human smugglers and drug traffickers.   He points to a road at the end of town. "This roadway leads right into the mountains south of here," he states. "Everything south of here leads into Mexico."

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