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Asked in February during a GOP primary debate in Arizona whether he supported tough immigration enforcement that includes arrests, Romney said: "I think you see a model in Arizona." He then mentioned the federal E-Verify program
-- it requires businesses to check the legal status of their employees
-- as one way to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in a particular state. Romney then said: "So going back to the question that was asked, the right course for America is to drop these lawsuits against Arizona and other states that are trying to do the job Barack Obama isn't doing." The Obama administration sued to block the Arizona law soon after its enactment two years ago. Protestors greeted Romney at his fundraiser in Scottsdale. The court's immigration ruling "leaves us with a bittersweet victory," said Carlos Galindo, an Obama supporter and the president of the Phoenix-area Immigrant Advocacy Foundation.
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