Judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law: "A federal judge in Phoenix on Wednesday blocked key provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law from taking effect as scheduled Thursday, granting in part an injunction requested by the Obama administration.
U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton ruled that the injunction would apply to the portion of the state law that requires police to try to determine the immigration status of a person they arrest, stop or detain while enforcing other laws if they reasonably suspect the person is in the United States illegally. Bolton said in her ruling that it was "not in the public interest" for Arizona to enforce provisions that preempt federal enforcement of immigration law." July 28, 2010, Washington Post
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
NACLA just published its analysis on Arizona SB 1070 and the federal anti-immigration policies, like Operation Streamline, that led up to it. Check out the article at https://nacla.org/node/6681!
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