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Texas GOP convention: We want an Arizona-style immigration law

Compiled from InsiderAdvantage and Southern Political Report staff

June 14, 2010 —

Texas Republicans voted Saturday to call for a state law to require local police officers to verify that people arrested on suspicion of a crime are in the country legally. If Republicans have their way, the Legislature would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to "intentionally or knowingly" be in the state of Texas. The proposal, similar to the controversial law in Arizona, is part of the legislative priorities section of the platform approved Saturday at the state GOP convention in Dallas.

-- President Obama plans to address the nation this week about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst in U.S. history. White House adviser David Axelrod told NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday that Obama will discuss the disaster after he returns from a visit to the region Monday and Tuesday, reports the Associated Press.

-- BP's failure to plug its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico isn't President Barack Obama's fault, Sen. Lindsey Graham said, while giving him "fairly low marks" in responding to damage caused by the disaster.

-- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, appearing Sunday on "Face The Nation" disagreed with criticism by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour over the government's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. And Crist, trying to sharpen his new opposition to drilling, said oil producing states are hurting Florida.

-- The Senate campaigns of Elaine Marshall and Cal Cunningham are in the hunt for that most elusive of prey - the Democrat who plans to vote in the June 22 runoff. In North Carolina. There are 2.7 million registered Democratic voters in North Carolina, but only a few more than 100,000 are expected to choose the next Democratic Senate nominee. That's about one out of every 27 registered Democrats.

-- Peanuts, as familiar to air travelers as tray tables and landing gear, could be grounded by the federal government. And Georgia’s peanut industry is fighting the idea.