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Arizona bill to fund armed militia advances [View all]
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2012/02/14/20120214arizona-bill-fund-armed-militia-advances.htmlby Yvonne Wingett Sanchez - Feb. 14, 2012 09:30 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com
Arizona is one step closer to funding an armed, volunteer militia to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border for undocumented immigrants and drug traffickers.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday narrowly passed a revised version of Senate Bill 1083, which would create and fund an Arizona Special Missions Unit.
If the bill passed, the unit would help secure the border and help local law enforcement pursue, detain and arrest those involved in "cross-border criminal activity," according to the bill's language
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