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Feds Sue Arizona: Coburn Reacts

Senator Tom Coburn speaks to the Tulsa Kiwanis Club about immigration.
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Senator Tom Coburn speaks to the Tulsa Kiwanis Club about immigration.

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Tulsa, OK – Feds sue to block Arizona illegal immigrant law

TULSA, OK (AP) The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants.

The government filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on Tuesday.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn says Arizona is following federal law, something, he says, the federal government is not doing.

The lawsuit argues that Arizona's new measure requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws usurps federal authority.

Tuesday's action has been expected for weeks. President Barack Obama has called the state law misguided. Supporters say it is a reasonable reaction to federal inaction on immigration.

Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.