Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Arizona and Alabama impose tough crackdowns on illegal immigration, California lawmakers are creating a bill that would protect many illegal immigrants, Reuters reports. California lawmakers are crafting a bill that would bar local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials unless he or she has been convict of a serious…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hispanics in Arizona protested outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, expressing concern that they’ll be subjected to racial profiling following Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Bloomberg reports. While the court struck down three provisions of the Arizona immigration law, the justices left intact the requirement that local police check the immigration…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has filed suit against a fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon sect, saying it discriminates against non-members, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The suit alleges that members of the sect control government services in the towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Those towns…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was stolen in Mesa, Az, but recovered in Virginia. The FBI’s Washington Field Office said Thursday that it helped recover the rare first edition of the Book of Mormon, which has been swiped from a bookstore in Arizona over Memorial Day weekend. Authorities said the book was recovered earlier this…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com White supremacist and border vigilante J.T. Ready was already being investigated for domestic terrorism by the feds when he allegedly went on a killing spree in his Gilbert, Arizona home, just outside of Pheonix, last Wednesday, reports The Arizona Republic. Feds seized the opportunity of the tragedy to join Gilbert police at…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com About 180 federal employees have begun moving into the FBI’s new Tucson-area headquarters, which officially opened on the first of this month, reports Inside Tucson Business. The building, 92,000 square feet, consolidates three scattered locations in the area. The building is owned and operated by the Kansas-based Quality Group of Companies…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A report issued late Monday night by the Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform tries to debunk suggestions by Republicans that high level appointees at the Justice Department conceived and directed the very flawed ATF Operation Fast and Furious. It places the blame for the operation squarely…
