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David S. Broder - Arizona's Border Burden - washingtonpost.com

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Hours after the immigration reform bill he had championed went down to defeat, Sen. John McCain told me what he thought would happen next. "You will see the states and cities scrambling to pass their own laws and regulations," he said, "and you're going to get a completely contradictory set of policies."

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state's Republican Legislature had passed imposing extremely tough sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

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The state legislation requires every Arizona business to verify the legal status of each new employee. That's also a requirement of long-established federal law, but the feds rarely enforce it. Under the new Arizona statute, a first violation can result in a suspension of the business license. A second offense can mean permanent revocation -- in effect, an order to go out of business.

Napolitano warned the Legislature that it may have gone too far. Without any exclusion for vital public services, she said, a hospital or power plant could be shut down for hiring undocumented workers.

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