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PHOENIX — A Wyoming man has given more than $1.5 million to help defend Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement measure in court, Gov. Jan Brewer’s office said Thursday.

The contribution from Timothy Mellon of Saratoga is the largest to Brewer’s defense fund, which has amassed more than $3.6 million from 41,000 donors nationwide. Mellon could not immediately be reached for comment.

The latest legal bills released Thursday show Brewer’s office has spent more than $440,000 for the first two months of defending the law.

The bills, obtained through a public records request by The Associated Press, are for work performed through June by Phoenix law firm Snell & Wilmer. They do not cover July hearings in federal court before a judge Susan Bolton temporarily blocked enforcement of the law’s most controversial provisions.

Brewer has appealed Bolton’s order to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Her office is defending the state against seven lawsuits challenging Arizona’s law, including cases filed by the U.S. Justice of Department, civil rights groups and two police officers.

Bolton has dismissed two of the cases.

“The fees incurred have been, and will continue to be, sizeable,” Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman said, noting there have been more than 900 legal filings totaling more than 12,000 pages.

Arizona’s law would generally require officers enforcing other measures to check the immigration status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

I find the entire situation such a disgrace. The United States Department of Justice has nothing better to do than sue the State of Arizona over something the Administration refuses to do, PROTECT our Country from illegals, drugs and criminals crossing the border.

What a waste of time and money when such funds could go to building the economy and employing people, and I am not talking about enriching some lawyer’s pocketbook.. God knows we have enough of our taxpayer’s money already stimulating the “wrong” people.

by Johathan J. CooperSource: story by AP posted on Yahoo’s website

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner.

The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.

“The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote.

Arizona’s law generally requires police officer enforcing other laws to investigate the immigration status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants.

A State Department spokesman had no immediate comment on Brewer’s letter.

Brewer, a Republican, is running for election in November. Her popularity in Arizona and her national profile have soared since she signed the immigration measure in April.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

The “Trilateral” monkeys have their names written all over this: Obama, Holder, Clinton. These clowns are getting desperate. I don’t blame Governor Brewer and the people of Arizona for being really bent out of shape over this.

I wonder if folks really see the implications here. The UN who sits back while genocide takes place in Africa or panders to Islam by condemning Israel and applauding the terrorists is now going to review a request by the United States Department of State as to whether Arizona, a sovereign State (not under the jurisdiction of the United Nations or a party to its Charter) violated human rights. I find this amusing but a serious sign as to how bad things have gotten in Washington. I will bet you that the fall-out on this one isn’t going to be pretty for the White House.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FoxNews

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Breaking news tonight here “On the Record” in the immigration battle. In just hours from now Utah State Representative Steve Sandstrom is unveiling a new immigration law for his state. He says Utah has become a magnet for illegals. Part of Arizona’s law has been struck down so how is this bill different from Arizona’s?

State Representative Sandstrom joins us. Good evening, sir.

STATE REP. STEPHEN SANDSTROM, R-UTAH: Good evening, Greta. It’s nice to be back on the show.

VAN SUSTEREN: Glad to have you back. Tomorrow you are officially going to unveil the statute. I got a look at it. How is this statute in Utah you are going to introduce to this bill, different from Arizona? Arizona has hit a constitutional hurdle.

SANDSTROM: Well, in many areas that directly mirrors the Arizona legislation. But I would hope that we’ve actually answered the questions and addressed technical issues brought up by Judge Bolton in Arizona and made a better bill I believe will stand constitutional muster and prevail in the 10th circuit court if it gets there.

VAN SUSTEREN: In the bill it says, among other things, this bill requires that an officer “verify the immigration status detained or arrested person upon reasonable suspicion the person is an illegal alien.” What does it mean, “reasonable suspicion”?

SANDSTROM: In Utah you have to have a birth certificate to get a driver’s license. So if somebody does not have a Utah driver’s license or one issued by another state, they do not have proper federal ID or something that identifies they are who say they say they are, that would raise a red flag.

If they then lie to a police officer or they can’t establish where they live, it’s pretty easy to establish reasonable suspicion that this person is in the country illegally. And that’s kind of the basis for a traffic stop.

VAN SUSTEREN: If I get pulled over for speeding and I don’t have a driver’s license, don’t I get pulled in anyway? I can’t demonstrate I have the privilege to drive in your state. I take it you are not going to say we trust your good word. You would pull me in any way.

SANDSTROM: Well, first off, if you have a license from another state, then that would be proof of legal status and you would be fine. Another option would be to simply give a name and address, let the officer call it in and verify you are who you say you are.

One other provision I have in my bill is that if you simply state you are a citizen of the United States of America that that officer has to presume thank you are a citizen or national of this country and must let you go. And that is another key point of the bill that will allow people to kind of get off the hook if you will if you are a U.S. citizen.

VAN SUSTEREN: That is actually a rather considerable difference, is it not, than the Arizona statute.

SANDSTROM: This is something that came about talking with legal experts. Actually it is a felony to state that you are a citizen of the United States if you are not a citizen. And so if the person attempts to lie, and it is my understanding that most illegal aliens know this, then they do not lie about their citizenship status because they know they will get nailed with a felony if they do so.

VAN SUSTEREN: Which is even a bigger problem.

All right, tell me about the illegal immigration problem in your state, how it manifests itself?

SANDSTROM: Right now we have between 130,000 to 150,000 estimated illegal aliens in our state, it is costing well over $100 million a year to educate the children of illegal aliens. We currently have had over 50,000 children here in Utah have their identities stolen by illegal aliens in order to get work, acquire jobs through a stolen Social Security number.

And we found out that usually when Arizona, our neighbor to the south, cracks down on illegal immigration, there is kind of a wave of immigration into our state from Arizona.

VAN SUSTEREN: I’m curious in terms of the cost. Is there any sort of offset for that $100 million to educate? Is there an offset for instance that people who are working having money withheld from their paycheck, and I assume many aren’t bothering to collect it, because to collect they would have to show they are there illegally. Is there an offset?

SANDSTROM: There could very well be some sort of offset, but I don’t know how we would quantify that. There are real costs associated with that.

Studies have shown, though, that the money that people that are here illegally make do not offset the amount of aid they receive through social welfare benefits that they acquire fraudulently that they are not paying enough money into the system for the system in a sense make some money on that.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, the illegal immigration enforcement act in the great state of Utah. Tomorrow you will be announcing it formally. Thank you for telling us about it. We’ll watch to see how it does in the courts. Thank you, sir.

SANDSTROM: You’re welcome, Greta, thanks.

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Comment by American Grand Jury:

I like Greta. I think she does a great job of reporting the news.

It is wonderful to see Utah taking the same hard-line stance as Arizona in fighting illegal immigration. I hope they get this law passed in Utah.

Good interview!

By John McCormack

While campaigning in Nevada Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told an audience of mostly Hispanic voters: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay. Do I need to say more?”

Reid’s racially-charged comments come as the Nevada Democrat is trying to boost Hispanic turnout in his bid for reelection this November. Polls show, however, that Reid’s positions on immigration are very unpopular with Nevada voters in general. Reid supports the Obama administration’s lawsuit against Arizona over its immigration law, but 63 percent of Nevada voters oppose the lawsuit, according to a Rasmussen poll.

Reid voted against a measure to complete a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border in May, but 68 percent of voters nationally support building a border fence, according to Rasmussen.

The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Reid leading Republican Sharron Angle by 2 percentage points. The Angle campaign has not yet officially responded to Reid’s remark, but an Angle staffer wrote on Twitter that Reid made an “idiotic” statement.

By Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA

HERE ARE ALL THE DEVELOPED NATIONS OF THE WORLD THAT OFFER BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP TO THE BABIES OF TOURISTS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS:

That’s right, every other modern Developed nation in the world has gotten rid of birthright citizenship policies.

Yet, most of U.S. news media and politicians the last two weeks have ridiculed the comments by some other politicians that it is time for the U.S. to put an end to birthright citizenship for tourists and illegal aliens.

Folks, the U.S. stands alone.

There used to be all kinds of Developed countries that gave away their citizenship as freely as we do in the U.S. But one by one they all have recognized the folly of that policy.

SOME MODERN COUNTRIES THAT RECENTLY ENDED THEIR BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP POLICY:

The United States is the laughing stock of the modern world. Only the U.S. values its citizenship so lowly as to distribute it promiscuously to the off-spring of foreign citizens visiting Disney World on tourist visas and to foreign citizens who have violated their promises on their visitor, work and student visas to stay illegally in the country, as well as to those who sneak across our borders.