U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton has issued a preliminary injunction preventing several sections of Arizona’s new immigration law from becoming law, at least until the courts have a chance to hear the full case.
Key parts of Senate Bill 1070 that will not go into effect Thursday:
• The portion of the law that requires an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there’s reasonable suspicion they’re in the country illegally.
• The portion that creates a crime of failure to apply for or carry “alien-registration papers.”
• The portion that makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to solicit, apply for or perform work. (This does not include the section on day laborers.)
• The portion that allows for a warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe they have committed a public offense that makes them removable from the United States.
The ruling says that law enforcement still must enforce federal immigration laws to the fullest extent of the law when SB 1070 goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Individuals will still be able to sue an agency if they adopt a policy that restricts such enforcement.
Bolton did not halt the part of the law that creates misdemeanors crimes for harboring and transporting illegal immigrants.
Bolton’s ruling followed hearings on three of seven federal lawsuits challenging SB 1070. Plaintiffs include the U.S. Department of Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union, Phoenix and Tucson police officers, municipalities, illegal immigrants and non-profit groups.
She denied legal requests by Gov. Jan Brewer, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and several other defendants seeking to have the lawsuits dismissed because, they argued, the plaintiffs did not prove that they would be harmed by the law if it went into effect.
Next, hearings will be scheduled to begin hearing the full case in the seven lawsuits. All or some of the suits could be consolidated. A full court hearing is likely to involve appeals, possibly as far as the U.S. Supreme Court, and could take several years.
(Source: Arizona Central)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
5 Responses
A federal judge refused to halt an invasion from another country. “We have met the enemy and it is us.” — Pogo
locknload – interesting – the “invasion” accusation was made a hundred years ago about Eastern European Jews – as well as about the Chinese and Irish.
#2 — I won’t denigrate myself to dignify your ignorant comment with a response.
#2
As a true right winger you always conveniently ignore the truth when it exposes your archaic, insane ideas.
Thank G-s that at least one federal judge has the seichel to recognize a blantant attempt to undermione the federal govrnment.
Unfortunaltely, the cretins that run Arizona are going to waste a ton of taxpayer money in, what I hope, will be a futile attempt to end-run the law.
YonasonW – Are you able to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration?