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 SB 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.
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Big business wins again! When are politicians (and this includes BOTH PARTIES) going to get a spine and stop illegal immigration? Every year thousands of illegal aliens (and yes, they are ILLEGAL) come pouring over our open border in search for a better economic situation. Since when is that a valid, legal reason for immigration? No country which I've looked at it's immigration laws allows "economic hardship" as a valid reason for issuing a visa, including the United States. They need to fix things in their own countries first. And for some reason, they believe they have a first right over anyone from any other country to get into the U.S. I know people from Eastern European countries (most with college degrees) making $25-$100 a month that would love to scrub toilets in a hotel here, but they can't swim the Atlantic! Why should they have to wait to get here legally, while those coming illegally across our border come here and get free services which we have to pay for one way or another?
My wife came here legally, we did all the correct paperwork and paid all the fees charged. We were married in the foreign country. Homeland Security made my wife wait one whole year before she could enter this country and I had to sign a financial responsibility affidavit on her for 5 years, which means she wasn't allowed to get any benefits from any State, City, or Federal Government social program. She had to get fingerprinted.
After the required time to wait, she became an American Citizen. I am proud of her!
I want to know when any government is going to do anything about this? I want to know when they will get a backbone and stand up against the illegal aliens' lobbyists and voters and say its not fair? I want to know when everything written in the State of Arizona is not also going to have to be written in Spanish? I want to know when illegal aliens are going to stop being cowards and do something to fix their own countries? I want to know when I can stop being ashamed at my congress people, both on the right and left, who are too afraid to do what is right and fair?
SB 1070 is a badly written and badly conceived law. It cannot be implemented without racial discrimination: what is 'reasonable suspicion' that someone just stopped is in this country illegally, other than color of skin, or state of clothes, or state of vehicle, or accent. I put it to you: if two men have been stopped for a traffic violation, and one is a young blond man driving a red convertible, while the other is dark-skinned, in work clothes, driving a beat-up old pickup, which one are you going to deem suspicious and therefore worth investigating further? Both have apparently valid driving licenses (easy enough to fake, ask any teenager trying to get into a bar). Wouldn't you say the dark-skinned man? And what if I told you he was a member of the Tohono O'odham tribe, whose people have been here since before Arizona was a state, and the blond man is a Britisher who came in on a tourist visa which is now six months out of date? The blond man is the one who is committing a crime, by state law.
If you are a police officer faced with such a dilemma, you might well take the easy way out and not investigate either. In which case, what good is the law? How is it going to catch illegal immigrants?
The potential of the law is that it would simply be used to harass and humiliate legal residents and American citizens with brown skins. Let me remind you that if you are being investigated you are likely to sit in detention for several hours while your case is verified by the appropriate agency, an understaffed office in Vermont.
As the federal government's legal action against Arizona immigration law SB 1070 continues, Americans continue to voice their support for the bold stance the Grand Canyon State has taken. CBS News and Rasmussen report the support of SB 1070 is 57 and 65 percent of Americans while The New York Daily News reports CNN giving a 55 percent rate of support. With SB 1070, state officials are more capable of finding illegal immigrants, although they can't send these immigrants out of the country. That power rests with the federal government, and Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't appear to be within the frame of mind to sign those papers.