The United States District Court issued a preliminary injunction today that prohibits certain aspects of Senate Bill 1070 – Arizona’s controversial immigration law – from becoming law in Arizona. SB 1070 is scheduled to go into effect on July 29, 2010, but the preliminary injunction issued on July 28, 2010 halted the following key portions of the law:
• 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 (i.e. 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… Read the rest
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