In its petition to the high court, Arizona says it is the nation's busiest illegal entry point, with many people streaming in from neighboring Mexico.
It remains unclear whether the payments were actually illegal - a point which depends in part on whether they continued after 2001, when the UK made bribery of foreign officials an offence.
Like Poland and Hungary, the Czech Republic is a jumping-off point for illegal immigration into the European Union.
Such safeguards include manufacturers training their dealers and distributors to identify and handle illegal purchasers at the point of sale, developing a code of conduct for distributors, and requiring them to implement record keeping measures in order to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Despite the increases, arrests of illegal border crossers remain at the lowest point since 1971.
Greece has become the major entry point into the EU for illegal migrants and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has complained that Greek reception centres are inadequate.
In my youth, I owned various weapons, most bought from questionable sources, but gave them up when Massachusetts laws tightened to the point where my armaments were clearly illegal.
But over the years, foes of illegal immigration have chipped away at the policies to the point where keeping families together is no longer a key consideration.
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Although the status-check provision contains no criminal sanctions or authority for the state to hold illegal immigrants without federal permission, it emerged as the flash point of controversy over effectively enlisting every Arizona law officer in a state campaign to "discourage and deter" the presence of illegal immigrants, as the statute says.
It makes little sense, from a European point of view, for France to get tough on illegal immigrants if Spain is granting an amnesty.
Officials now point out that merely to circulate such messages without permission is illegal.
Bitcoin's backers point out that criminals will use any currency for money laundering or illegal purchases.
There is little point in making a technology lawful for personal use, but keeping it illegal to develop, traffic or sell.
There is no point taking the gun out of your home in Switzerland because it is illegal to carry a gun in the street.
But, most important point is, we reported thousands and thousands and thousands of names of illegal immigrants who committed crimes to the immigration service.
It has a bad reputation as a transit point for smuggled drugs, often imported from Kosovo, and for trafficking in illegal migrants.
It was a chance visit (prompted by her errant dog, Xena) to an illegal dumping ground by the Bronx River that proved to be Carter's environmental tipping point.
Faisal al Yafai writes in the UK's Guardian that Israel's illegal annexation of the Heights from Syria is a thorny issue to resolve and remains the main sticking point between the two countries.
Toulouse captain Fabien Pelous was harshly sin-binned for illegal use of the boot and O'Gara slotted the resulting penalty to give Munster a seven-point lead.
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