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Scheduled to take effect only last week, enforcement of Arizona’s new anti-immigration law was largely enjoined by a federal judge in Phoenix. The court order will have a number of effects, both expected and unexpected. At once enlivening the lackluster Republican administration of Gov. Jan Brewer, it already caused many negative repercussions. Members of one anti-immigrant group, resplendent in Nazi uniforms, asserted that they would put down their firearms only when the federal government started adequately enforcing U.S. immigration law. One of the seven lawsuits filed against the State of Arizona was by an Arizona policeman who claimed that he would be damned if he enforced the law and equally damned if he failed to do so since the law, as proposed, allowed any legal resident of Arizona to collect money damages if he could show that any Arizona officer or agency failed to enforce the immigration law to the full extent permitted by the federal law.

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