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Catherine Miranda

This legislation would create a ballot initiative allowing Arizona voters to decide immigration-related policies. Key provisions of the bill include empowering law enforcement to arrest aliens who enter Arizona illegally through locations other than official ports of entry, creating criminal offenses for knowingly presenting false documents to obtain public benefits or evade workplace eligibility detection through the E-Verify program, requiring agencies to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to verify benefit eligibility and document validity for non-citizens, and increasing punishments for selling fentanyl that causes the death of another person. The bill also allows certain legislative leaders to intervene in lawsuits challenging the act and includes provisions for court orders requiring individuals charged with illegal entry to return to their country of origin, civil immunity for government entities and officials enforcing the act, and incarceration agreements.