Utah Immigration Law Is Blocked - NYTimes.com: "A federal judge in Utah on Thursday temporarily barred a state law to curb illegal immigration from taking effect, saying he wanted to give both sides in a lawsuit more time to prepare their arguments.
The decision by the judge, Clark Waddoups of Federal District Court in Salt Lake City, held up a law passed by the Utah Legislature in March that gave new powers to the state and local police to question people they detained about immigration status.
In a lawsuit, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups claimed the law, a variation on one passed last year in Arizona, would interfere with federal immigration law and lead to racial profiling. The judge did not rule on the law, but set a hearing for July 14."
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.
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