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By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX Arizona voters will get to decide next year whether to let children who came to this country illegally to attend state universities and community colleges paying no more tuition than other state residents.
Four Republicans sided with all 29 Democrats Monday to provide the margin of victory for SCR 1044. With a prior 17-13 vote in the Senate, that sends the measure directly to the 2022 ballot; it does not need the input of Gov. Doug Ducey.
But there is no guarantee the change the measure proposes ever will take place.
President Biden has promised an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system that would include legalizing the roughly 700,000 young immigrants known as “Dreamers.”
But Biden can’t even get support in the evenly divided Congress to legalize them, let alone anyone else.
We can only hope that Biden eventually drums up enough backing, but we shouldn’t wait idly for that to happen.
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers can give “Dreamers” a dose of hope. He can’t legalize them, of course, but he can at least let his fellow state lawmakers vote on a proposal aimed at giving “Dreamers” and all other undocumented Arizona high school graduates access to in-state college tuition.
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An audit into 2020 election results from Maricopa County continues at Phoenix Veterans Memorial Coliseum. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
PHOENIX, AZ An audit of results from the 2020 election in Arizona s largest county by the state senate has entered its second week.
The audit, which is being overseen by a firm called Cyber Ninjas, comes after Republican lawmakers subpoenaed the more than 2 million ballots and nearly 400 tabulation machines.
The audit, which officially started on Friday, has drawn immense criticism from Democratic lawmakers at the state and national level.
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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told CNN on Monday that the audit effort was a political stunt and a farce.
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