[Bangla Daily Star] A high profile international conference yesterday recommended open-pit coal mining for Bangladesh, and urged the government to ease up the bidding and purchasing mechanism in the power sector to encourage private investment.
The recommendation for open-pit mining was however somewhat guarded saying, "In terms of coal mining, it was recommended that the open-pit method should be followed wherever feasible. Any decision should take into account the issue of socio-economic context (rehabilitating the affected people) and loss of agriculture lands. Possible resistance against open-pit mining should be handled proactively."
A mining authority could be set up to deal with the rehabilitation and relocation of affected people, and to ensure accountability and transparency, it added.
The International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICC,B) organised the conference titled "Energy for Growth", attended by delegates of leading energy firms and investment banks from 20 countries including Australia, China, Japan, Germany, the US, UK, and Bangladesh, at Radisson Hotel in the capital.
The recommendations also include setting up more rental power plants, long term supply agreements with investors, adequate incentives for them, upward revision of tariff, and a strong political will for achieving energy security.
Mahbubur Rahman, president of ICC, B informed the media about the recommendations the chamber received from different breakout sessions of the conference.
The conference recommended that Bangladesh immediately starts modern, safe, and environment-friendly extraction of coal from Barapukuria, and Phulbari mines within the framework of a robust coal policy, although it added that liquid oil based power plants could reduce the energy crisis in a shorter term.
A half of the 30,000 megawatt power generation target by 2020 have to be achieved through coal-powered plants, said the list of written recommendations.
The ICC also said investors are attracted to emerging markets by their high GDP growth rates. Bangladesh is now attractive as its GDP has been growing by 6 percent a year on an average over the past five years despite domestic and international hurdles.
Return from power project financing in Bangladesh is estimated at 20 to 25 percent, much higher than what it is in many other countries, it added.
The risk factors however lie with the transparency of agreements, tariff structure, fuel supply, regulatory and legal framework, political risk, etc, it cautioned.
The proposals for setting up independent power plants should be quickly and efficiently evaluated, recommended ICC adding, "Tender process must be simplified and made transparent within a specified timeframe, to enhance attractiveness of the sector to foreign investors."
"More companies will come with their investments if the government makes necessary legislative changes in the mechanism of purchasing power from the private sector," said the ICC, B president.
Capital market could be an excellent source of financing, giving a combination of debt and equity, the ICC recommendations said.
Both the government and the private sector should act proactively towards developing a mechanism to track forecasts and projections with regard to prices of commodities such as gas, LNG, and coal in the future, it said.
ICC, B vice-presidents Manzur Elahi and Latifur Rahman were also present at the media briefing.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Criminals yesterday gunned down a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader at Shekhertek in the capital in brought daylight.
Locals and police said Chhatra League Ward-43 unit General Secretary Mohammad Ahiduzzaman, 25, was killed after he had lunch with his mates at a local restaurant.
Soon after the killing, police arrested alleged gang members of Nabi Group--Gazi Ohid and Babu.
According to witnesses, three criminals sprayed several bullets at Ahid on Road-12 of Shekhertek around 2:00pm after Ahid and his six associates had their lunch.
Abu Noman, Ahid's associate who witnessed the attack, said three teen-aged boys made the attack from the back and ran away firing blank shots.
Mohammad Tutul of "Tomato Obhijat Khabar Ghar", where Ahid had lunch and was almost a regular, told The Daily Star, "After having lunch Ahid and his friends left and were attacked only 40 yards away."
Ahid's elder sister Rosy Begum told The Daily Star, "For several months Ahid had been saying that his life was in danger and he might be killed anytime."
Rosy speculated that a local leader of Mohammadpur-Adabar area might have been responsible for the killing.
Sources said he might have been killed due to feuds over control of waste-garment trading or a spring fair held in the area.
Locals said Ahid was engaged in waste-garment trading and he had a feud with Nabi Group's chief Nabi.
They said Ahid was also the main organiser of Bashanta Mela, which has been going on for the last 15 days at Nabodoy Housing Balurmath. They said lottery and gambling were the main attractions of the fair. They said he might have had a feud with local ruling party leaders over the share of money of the fair.
According his family sources, he received stab wounds when some of his rivals attacked him last year and four months ago he was attacked again.
Adabar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Shahidul Islam told The Daily Star that they have detained two cadres of Nabi Group.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Tuesday he might resign if the interim government guaranteed his safety and calmed the turmoil gripping the country since an uprising against his five-year rule. "And I want a settlement for the emotional distress it's caused me."
Raising for the first time the possibility of ceding power, Bakiyev attached several conditions to stepping down, a sharp shift in tone that could offer a way out of the standoff with the self-proclaimed government which controls Kyrgyzstan. "I want it in small bills..."
When asked by reporters under what conditions he could resign, Bakiyev said: "I believe first and foremost if there is a guarantee that the roaming of these armed people ends in Kyrgyzstan, that this redistribution of property and this armed free-for-all stops."
"Secondly, if my personal security and that of my family and my relatives is guaranteed," Bakiyev told reporters outside his yurt in his home village.
"And also let them start preparing a snap presidential election to be held within two or three months."
The self-proclaimed government has said Russia is its key ally and some leading ministers have said the lease on a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, the subject of Russian objections, could be shortened. The base is used for supplying U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
Since fleeing the capital after troops fired on demonstrators in an uprising on April 7 that brought his opponents to power, Bakiyev had warned of a bloodbath, refused to resign and tried to rally followers in his southern stronghold.
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He's living in a yurt and still giving 'take it or leave it' offers to resign.
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TOPIX > OUSTED KYRGYZ PRESIDENT BAKIYEV WARNS OF BLOODSHED [iff He is ARRESTED/DETAINED by the Pro-Russ Opposition].
and
RIAN > MEDVEDEV BLAMES KYRGYZ AUTHORITIES FOR CIVIL UNRESTS:WARNS RISK OF CIVIL WAR IS HIGH. Dimitri warns that civil war may break Kyrgyzstan into oppos NORTH-SOUTH ENTITIES.
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OK, that's the plan--to split it. North part with infrastructure with a Russian puppet regime and who cares about highlanders in sparsely populated southern area... The Manas base is 30km from Bishkek (North).
Reuters - DUBAI/SINGAPORE - A Chinese state oil company has sold two cargoes of gasoline to Iran, industry sources said on Wednesday, underlying Beijing's distaste for any sanctions on Tehran that could damage economic ties.
China's stance on Iran has become vital as Russia has hardened its position and moved closer to the other members of the United Nations Security Council, the United States and its European allies, which are pressing for swift, bold sanctions.
China agreed at a nuclear summit in Washington this week to help negotiate a new U.N. sanctions resolution on Iran, but stressed the need for a diplomatic solution and that any sanctions should not hurt trade, nor the Iranian people.
"The Chinese are obviously concerned about what ramifications this might have on the economy generally," President Barack Obama said on Tuesday. "Iran is an oil-producing state"
The United States and major European powers believe Iran is attempting to secretly build an atomic arsenal under the cover of a civilian nuclear programme that Tehran insists is entirely peaceful. Iran has already defied three sets of U.N. sanctions.
U.S. intelligence agencies believe Iran will not be capable of producing nuclear weapons for at least a year, but may be technically able to do so within 3-to-5 years.
While Western states have had to dilute their demands for sanctions to exclude energy deals, the United States may impose unilateral sanctions on fuel suppliers to Iran. As a result, several of the world's top oil suppliers have already curbed sales to Iran to pre-empt penalisation of their U.S. operations.
But state-run Chinaoil appeared undeterred, selling a total of about 600,000 barrels of gasoline worth around $55 million to the Islamic Republic, the industry sources said.
The cargoes were Chinaoil's first direct sales to Iran since at least January 2009, according to Reuters data. Chinese firms have previously sold through intermediaries, traders said.
"As long as there is money to be made, and economic benefits to be taken advantage off, Iran will always find ready sellers of gasoline from the international market," a trader said. "The politicians don't understand markets ...sanctions are cosmetic."
While Iran is the world's fifth biggest crude oil exporter, U.S. sanctions mean it has suffered from lack of investment in refineries so that it now has to import some 40 percent of its gasoline needs to meet the demand of a population brought up to believe that cheap fuel is its birthright.
Another Chinese company, Sinopec, is also poised to sell gasoline to Iran for the first time in six years, trade sources said, and Iran appeared confident it could weather any storm.
"We have no problem to meet the country's petroleum demand ... We are familiar with sanctions and sanctions will have no impact on our oil industry," the SHANA news agency quoted Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi as saying on Wednesday.
The moves by Chinese firms come after LUKOIL, Russia's No. 2 oil company, stopped gasoline sales to Iran this month.
In March, Anglo-Dutch oil firm Royal Dutch Shell announced it had stopped gasoline supplies to the Islamic Republic, joining two of the world's largest independent trading companies Glencore and Vitol who had taken similar decisions.
German carmaker Daimler on Wednesday joined a growing list of companies stopping trade with Iran due to threats to its business in the United States. [ID:nLDE62A19L]
Mehdi Varzi, a London-based energy consultant, said sanctions had already had a "big impact" on Iran, but curbing investment and therefore productivity in its crucial oil sector.
Iran's growing isolation means Tehran is ever more reliant on China, for both trade and investment and for diplomatic backing on the international stage. But Iran, analysts point out, has little or no leverage over China in order to keep that support other than offering ever sweeter deals.
China's imports of Iranian crude shrank by nearly 40 percent in the first two months of 2010, compared to the same time last year, Chinese customs data showed, despite the Asian economy's expanding hunger for foreign oil.
Obama wants to see the Security Council "move forward boldly and quickly" towards a new round of sanctions.
"I think that we have a strong number of countries on the Security Council who believe this is the right thing to do. But I think these negotiations can be difficult and I am going to push as hard as I can," he said on Tuesday.
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Iran sits on a lot of oil. Although they have had a program for about six years to increase their refinery capacity, this effort has only increased gasoline production by about six percent. Therefore they need to buy gasoline from countries such as China. China currently imports 32% of its oil and is expected to double its need for imported oil between now and 2010. China's expectation of growing future dependence on oil imports has brought it to acquire interests in exploration and production in places like Kazakhstan, Russia, Venezuela, Sudan, West Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Canada. But despite its efforts to diversify its sources, China has become increasingly dependent on Middle East oil. Today, 58% of China's oil imports come from the region.
Sounds like China is not going to have much to do with sanctions. It also sounds like they are buying oil from Iran and selling it back to them as refined gasoline. Iran says it can increase their refinery capacity within a year but then again they say a lot of things. Had they spent more time developing refinery capacity rather than nuclear weapons they would have a sufficient amount of gasoline. Maybe it should be up for consideration that Iran's oil production and refineries should be targeted as well as their nuclear capacity.
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"Former Deputy Defense Minister of Israel said that Israel may have no option but to attack Iran (with nuclear weapons) by November. After yesterday's evacuation of Israeli citizens from the Sinai Peninsula, the Middle-East is once again heating up... Hopefully it does not reach 6 million degrees Kelvin." -- Tyler Durden (ZeroHedge)
A series of strong earthquakes struck China's western Qinghai province Wednesday, killing at least 300 people, injuring thousands and burying many others under toppled houses in a mountainous rural area, officials and state media said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.9 temblor struck an area in southern Qinghai, near Tibet, on Wednesday morning and was followed by several aftershocks.
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There seems to have been an above average amount of strong or greater earthquakes for the year .
I count 62 6.5 or greater earthquakes round the world since jan 2009. Although this seems less than 120 6.0 or higher for an average year . If you take in to account the number of 6.0 to 6.4 then the number is considerably higher
Earth mother is unhappy Bush was swapped for Obambi .. Well thats my spaced out conclusion !
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further proof that the world is ending....run for the hills!...save yourselves!....women and children first unless they're too slow!
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oscar I think the reason it sounds like more is 1 stuff like this used not tooo not get reported until days later thanks tyoo satellite tech. It also makes good story of doom and gloom that the media loves too report on so much
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Whole lotta shakin' goin' on...sorta, kinda...but not really.
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stuff like this used not tooo not get reported until days later
Seismographs worked the same 50 years ago. That's why we could use them to detect subterranean nuclear tests.
I think people just didn't care as much back when the evening news lasted only 15 minutes and they didn't even report the stock market results every evening. Perhaps that also explains part of why politics seems so much more contentious and uncivil.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Poland's acting president vows to end political ambiguity with an early election after the sudden deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of top officials.
"The election date must be set...This must be done as soon as possible to shorten the period in which Poland is in a period of uncertainty." Bronislaw Komorowski, the acting president, was quoted by TVP Info on Tuesday.
The remarks came as family members received the coffin of Kaczynski's wife, who was also killed in Saturday's tragic plane crash.
All of the 96 passengers onboard the aging government plane, including Polish military heads, top opposition figures and the central bank governor, were killed when their Tu-154 plane struck trees and caught fire while trying to land in an airport in fog-shrouded western Russia.
As the Polish Constitution dictates that the election must take place within 60 days of the announcement, the favored Sunday election date will most likely be set for May 30 or June 13, Reuters reported.
According to recent opinion polls, Komorowski is favored to win the vote. The 57-year-old lower house speaker is the official candidate of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Platform (PO) for the upcoming election.
Warsaw is planning a state funeral for the late presidential couple in Krakow province's 1,000-year-old cathedral, the main resting place of Polish monarchs for over seven centuries.
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[Ma'an] Palestinian civil defense crews, in cooperation with security forces, uncovered the body of a man murdered three years prior on Monday, in Tulkarem, a statement read.
Security sources told Ma'an Monday that police had solved the murder case, in which a man reportedly confessed to killing his brother during a family brawl.
Meanwhile, defense crews extinguished a number of fires that erupted across the West Bank on Tuesday, the statement added.
In Ramallah, firefighters controlled a blaze that erupted in an abandoned house near Al-Bireh Park, while in Tulkarem crews extinguished a fire that broke out in a plastic goods store.
Several fires were also put out in Jenin and Ezzaryia, occupied East Jerusalem.
Defense crews further saved four children stuck in an elevator in Al-Doha, Bethlehem after the residential building experienced an electricity outage.
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[Straits Times] THE Philippines' Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred the main suspect in the massacre of 57 people to a police base in Manila from the headquarters of the national law enforcement agency for security reasons.
The trial of Andal 'Unsay' Ampatuan Jr would also be moved to a new location, Camp Bagong Diwa, from another police compound, although the appointed judge would be retained to avoid delays, Supreme Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez told reporters.
Mr Marquez said the decision took into consideration the potential danger to civilians and institutions in and around Camp Crame, the main police camp in Manila, and the inconvenience of moving Ampatuan from his detention cell to the court.
Ampatuan Jr has been held at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Manila since his arrest in late November, about a 30-minute drive to the main police camp where the court was hearing his multiple murder cases.
Last November, seven members of a rival clan, 30 journalists and 20 civilians were killed by about 100 armed men in southern Maguindanao province.
Those killed had been on their way to witness the filing of nomination papers of a candidate preparing to stand against Ampatuan Jr for a local position in national elections on May 10. The deaths heightened the Philippines' profile as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, and stoked tensions ahead of the elections.
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[Straits Times] THE political crisis in Thailand is deteriorating and shaking confidence in the region as a whole, the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Surin Pitsuwan, said on Tuesday.
'The deteriorating situation in Thailand between demonstrators and government security forces in Bangkok has caused serious concern among Asean member states and the world at large,' Dr Surin, Asean's secretary-general, said in a statement.
'The situation is affecting confidence in the security and stability of the region and if it is left to fester and escalate, it could lead to more violence and losses of lives. This will tarnish the good reputation of Thais as a peace-loving nation, and of Thailand as a source of prosperity and stability in the Asean region.'
Dr Surin, a former foreign minister of Thailand, called upon all parties to the conflict to 'exercise maximum self-restraint and to seek a quick renegotiated settlement'.
'Asean stands ready to extend any appropriate support to help defuse the situation without interfering in the internal affairs of Thailand, if requested,' he added.
It was a strongly worded statement from the leader of an organisation that follows a strict code of non-interference in member states' internal affairs.
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It appears that Deputy Army Commander Prayuth is getting ready to push aside the wavering civilian government, and do what he needs to do to restore rule of law in Bangkok. I'd say Thailand will be under new control by Saturday evening.
[Straits Times] A COURT sentenced a Malaysian man to six years in prison and ordered him to be flogged with a rattan cane after he splashed acid on his wife for refusing to have sex with him, an official said on Tuesday.
Supian Hani Ismail began serving the prison term on Monday after a district court judge in eastern Pahang state issued the sentence, a court official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to make public statements.
The unemployed 47-year-old had pleaded guilty to a charge of 'causing grievous hurt' to his wife by splashing a bottle of acid on her after she rebuffed his demand for sex on the night of April 7 at their home, the official said.
Supian will also receive two lashes of a thick rattan stick, which generally leaves lifelong scars.
Supian's wife was recovering in a hospital after suffering burns on her face, hands and other parts of her body, the national news agency Bernama said.
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[Straits Times] THAILAND'S Foreign Minister lashed out at the international community on Monday for failing to take action against fugitive ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whom he blamed for the country's political unrest.
'Everyone is washing their hands but he is a bloody terrorist,' said Kasit Piromya, citing countries such as Russia and Germany for turning a blind eye over Mr Thaksin's corruption conviction and allowing him in.
He also cited Dubai, which the billionaire Mr Thaksin had reportedly used as a longtime base after being overthrown in a military coup in 2006, as well as Nicaragua and Montenegro, both of which he recently visited. 'There is this act of interference by third countries - how can the Russians allow him there for two days or the Germans before that?' 'Everyone is playing naive, closing their eyes and so on, simply because he was once an elected leader,' Mr Kasit said.
He likened Mr Thaksin to an Al-Qaeda terrorist and past 'elected' leaders such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. 'Hitler was elected, Mussolini was elected, even Stalin could say that he was elected also but what did they do to their very society? This is the question,' the top Thai diplomat said at a meeting with a small group of reporters and think tank heads.
Mr Kasit, in Washington attending a landmark nuclear summit called by President Barack Obama, accused Mr Thaksin of orchestrating demonstrations by his so-called Red Shirt supporters last week that led to 21 deaths in the bloodiest political unrest in 18 years. The 60-year-old Mr Thaksin exiled himself to avoid imprisonment on a 2008 corruption conviction and occasionally addresses the Red Shirts through Internet video links.
Mr Kasit lamented that Thailand was 'not getting any international cooperation at all' over Mr Thaksin's case, saying even Interpol 'just simply refused to work with us.' He blamed the ousted premier for using extralegal means to topple Thailand's current democratically elected administration. While the world demanded for more democracy in Thailand, it 'allows Mr Thaksin to run loose as if nothing happens,' he said.
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Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday approved what foes and supporters agree is the toughest measure in the country against illegal immigrants, directing local police to determine whether people are in the country legally. The measure, long sought by opponents of illegal immigration, passed 35 to 21 in the state House of Representatives.
The state Senate passed a similar measure earlier this year, and Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is expected to sign the bill.
The bill's author, State Sen. Russell Pearce, said it simply "takes the handcuffs off of law enforcement and lets them do their job."
But police were deeply divided on the matter, with police unions backing it but the state police chief's association opposing the bill, contending it could erode trust with immigrants who could be potential witnesses.
Immigrant rights groups were as expected horrified, and contended that Arizona would be transformed into a police state.
"It's beyond the pale," said Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "It appears to mandate racial profiling."
The bill, known as SB 1070, makes it a misdemeanor to lack proper immigration paperwork in Arizona. It also requires police officers, if they form a "reasonable suspicion" that someone is an illegal immigrant, to determine the person's immigration status.
Currently, officers can inquire about someone's immigration status only if the person is a suspect in another crime. The bill allows officers to avoid the immigration issue if it would be impractical or hinder another investigation.
Citizens can sue to compel police agencies to comply with the law, and no city or agency can formulate a policy directing its workers to ignore the law -- a provision that advocates say prevents so-called sanctuary orders that police not inquire about people's immigration status.
The bill cements the position of Arizona, whose border with Mexico is the most popular point of entry for illegal immigrants into this country, as the state most aggressively using its own laws to fight illegal immigration. In 2006 the state passed a law that would dissolve companies with a pattern of hiring illegal immigrants. Last year it made it a crime for a government worker to give improper benefits to an illegal immigrant.
Mark Krikorian at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank that advocates tougher immigration enforcement, said the legislation was a logical extension of the state's previous enforcement efforts. "It makes sense that they would be the first to do it since they're ground zero for illegal immigration," he said.
Krikorian added that he doubted the law would be used much. "Obviously, their prosecutors aren't going to go out and prosecute every illegal alien," he said. "It gives police and prosecutors another tool should they need it."
Opponents, however, raised the specter of officers untrained in immigration law being required to determine who is in the country legally. They noted that though the bill says race cannot solely be used to form a suspicion about a person's legality, it implicitly allows it to be a factor.
"A lot of U.S. citizens are going to be swept up in the application of this law for something as simple as having an accent and leaving their wallet at home," said Alessandra Soler Meetze, president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona.
The ACLU and other groups have vowed to sue to block the bill from taking effect should Brewer sign it. They note that a federal court struck down a New Hampshire law in 2005 that said illegal immigrants were trespassing, declaring that only the federal government has the authority to enforce immigration. Another provision of the Arizona law, which makes day laborers illegal, violates the 1st Amendment, critics contend.
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Expect this to be upheld in the state court, then struck down in the appeals court, then ignored by the supreme court.
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Another provision of the Arizona law, which makes day laborers illegal, violates the 1st Amendment, critics contend.
So, busting street walkers is violating their 1st Amendment rights? Nice try. It is the power of the government, local, state, and national to regulate commerce. This is management of commerce.
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There are some questionable parts to the new law, both from a functional point of view, and because they open it up to attack during appeal.
First of all, it requires city, county and State employees to report *suspected* illegals they come in contact with. This comes across as a cringe-worthy "everyone a policeman" clause. Government workers could get up to 4 months in jail for not reporting.
Oddly enough, it *exempts* emergency workers, including firemen, policemen and ER personnel from reporting. And it also exempts churches from providing transportation or other services to illegals.
Second, failure to produce documents is not evidence, of course, even though the law requires foreigners of all kinds to carry documents.
This means that workers required to report, cannot detain, just notify police, even though the suspected illegal is long gone. This is a bizarre catch-22, a "requirement to report suspicion" based on little or no evidence, or else.
The Arizona Supreme Court weighed in, even before the law was passed, finding against a lawsuit by the group organization of AZ cities and towns, who are concerned that they are going to take the hit for this, financially and legally.
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