Immigration Crackdown: Arizona shooting: immigration row thrust into spotlight

Arizona shooting: immigration row thrust into spotlight - Telegraph: "The row over illegal immigration in Arizona has been thrust into the national spotlight by the death in Tucson of John Roll, the state's chief federal judge.

Judge Roll, 63, attended Gabrielle Giffords's meet-the-voters event, where he died last Saturday, to discuss the unbearable load of migrant cases his colleagues faced, prosecutors have said. His funeral was held on Friday.

Immigration is the most contentious political issue around Tucson, where thousands of Mexicans arrive illegally each year after entering a 114-mile stretch of the border in Miss Giffords's constituency. 

Judge Roll had complained that the "inexhaustible number" of new officers and prosecutors in the area, had not been matched with extra judges. ... He warned a senior regional judge in November that colleagues, who already had more work than judges in 87 of the 94 districts across the US, were facing "a tsunami" of cases." Jan. 14, 2011"