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The HillAFL-CIO wants DHS to stop working with Arizona state cops
By Jordan Fabian - 05/14/10 10:01 AM ET
Labor group joins civil rights organization in callling on Napolitano to end programs because of immigration law.
One of the nation's most influential labor groups and a civil rights organization on Friday urged Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to end programs with Arizona law enforcement agencies over the state's controversial immigration law.
The AFL-CIO and the Leadership Conference penned a letter to Napolitano, saying that while the administration has said it is opposed to the law, they need to be doing more to protest it.
The Arizona law requires that state and local law enforcement officials ask for identification from people they suspect are in the country illegally, if they are stopped for other reasons.
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