One Arizona town’s take on immigration debate

By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. — Far from the heated protest marches in downtown Phoenix, either denouncing Arizona’s immigration law or embracing it, the arguments over the law aren’t so simple.

Vince Cherryholmes, 51, a video store owner, says he was angered when U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton last month temporarily blocked the core of the law, known as S.B. 1070, which would have required police officers to determine the immigration status of suspects stopped for another offense if there was a “reasonable suspicion” they were in the country illegally. Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has appealed the ruling.

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