The day before, Romney spokesman Rick Gorka repeatedly stuck to noncommittal responses when grilled for several minutes about the candidate's stance on a controversial provision in the Arizona law requiring police to check the immigration status of crime suspects.

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If I wanted to know more about a particular crime pattern or the status of an investigation, I'd visit the squad and debrief the detective in charge of the case.

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Other sections of the law were struck down, including warrant-less arrest of those believed to commit a deportable crime and criminalizing those without status to seek or hold employment.

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Many were purely commercial outfits seeking to benefit from privileged tax and customs status, and were often run by organised-crime groups.

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This might raise the question whether Blagojevich should be allowed to profit from a celebrity status that is mostly based on having been accused and convicted of a crime. (Well, accused of 24, convicted of one.) But he probably can.

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Democrats advanced a substitute bill that would have attempted to alter the language of Graham's base legislation by creating a new legal status for harm against a pregnant woman, rather than applying two standards to one violent crime.

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