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SB 1070 - NEW Arizona poll just released

The latest telephone poll taken by the Arizona Governor's office asked whether people who live in Arizona think illegal immigration is a serious problem.

Here are the results of that poll:

29% responded: "Yes, it is a serious problem."

71% responded: "No es una problema seriosa."...

Rev. Al Sharpton avoiding Sheriff Joe in Arizona

Despite an invitation on CNN's Larry King Live to meet face to face, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Wednesday that The Rev. Al Sharpton is going to avoid him on his trip to Phoenix this time.

The two men met last year in Arpaio's office to discuss the sheriff's crime sweeps and crackdown on illegal immigration. At that time Sharpton demanded Arpaio's resignation.

"Isn't that ironic that he wanted to get rid of me a year ago and I'm still here … and I'm still here, Al," said Arpaio.

The sheriff said he is discouraged by all the hype and all the talk of boycotts. He said he believes the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.

"This law if anybody would read it they would understand it," he said. "It's what we've been doing it's what law enforcement does everyday, regardless of what the crime is. We do it everyday."

"Why all the hype? I'll tell you why the hype," Arpaio said. "There's a lot of people here who want amnesty and they don't want us to go into businesses and lock up illegal aliens working for cheap wages that's what this is about."

"But it has gone so far now that the people in New York and everywhere else get the wrong impression of this," said Arpaio.

illegal workers found at local business

Sheriff's deputies raided a west Phoenix business Thursday with plans to arrest 35 people who are believed to be illegal immigrants and have used fraudulent documents to get their jobs.

Sheriff's spokesman Brian Lee said the raid was being made as part of a potential employer sanctions case against Laser Masters, a company that supplies printer cartridges.

A woman who answered the phone at the business and declined to give her name confirmed that deputies were raiding the business.

Lee said the investigation began after deputies received a tip on an immigration hot line several months ago.

Arizona mom helps to bust HUGE ecstasy ring

Police are crediting a Phoenix-area mother's tip for the dismantling of an Internet-based Ecstasy sales ring.

The unidentified woman's call to the Maricopa County Methamphetamine Task Force early last week brought swift action from detectives, who within hours located the seller's MySpace page online, including a complete price list, quantity and product review.

By Tuesday, 10 Ecstasy dealers who had a combined client list of nearly 500 metro Phoenix high school and college students were under arrest, investigators say.

The network of small-time peddlers was coordinated and advertised through the social networking Web site, said Lt. Steve Bailey, a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy assigned to the task force.

Detectives were able to buy the drug from dealers in Mesa, north Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Fountain Hills, and in parks, restaurants and other public places. If a dealer ran out, he simply referred undercover agents to some other suppliers, police said.

"It's sort of a loose-knit, somewhat organized group,'' Bailey said. "There's no sense of competition among them or anything.

They got kids with pockets full of money who just want to get high on Friday and Saturday night.''

Detectives purchased more than 200 hits in their brief investigation.

Dealers said they bought the pills for $7 and typically sold them for $15 and could make as much as $3,000 each weekend selling the drug at parties and raves and other all-night dance parties held in large venues.

The ease of buying and selling the drug shows where Ecstasy ranks on the list of concerning drugs for parents and teenagers, investigators said.

"It's very easy (to buy) and unfortunately, I hate to say, accepted. Parents hear about these rave parties and alcohol isn't allowed at these rave parties because it's a dangerous combination,'' said Phoenix police Sgt. Don Sherrard, a member of the task force. "So the parents are kind of ignorant and kind of relieved that their kids aren't out drinking and driving and don't realize their kids are doing methamphetamine.''

Physicians say Ecstasy can damage the brain. It dumps all of the serotonin out of the user's brain in one massive reaction that brings a state of euphoria, said Dr. Jeff Thomas, a clinical professor at Arizona State University.

The drug also blocks the brain from recycling that serotonin, leading to the depression that follows. "It takes a long time, 6 months, for your brain to get back where it was after one dose,'' Thomas said. "This drug is actually more damaging than methamphetamine.''

Police praised the inquisitive mother who helped bring down the Ecstasy ring.

"Had it not been for this mother calling in, we would not have gotten on to these guys,'' Sherrard said.