U.S. judge dismisses challenge of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law
Challengers of Arizona’s landmark immigration law failed to show that police would enforce the statute differently for Latinos than they would for people of other ethnicities, a judge said in a ruling that dismissed the last of seven challenges to the law..
The ruling could signal the end of the case and gave a victory to backers of the law, which was approved in 2010. In her order Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton dismissed the challenge and upheld provisions that were previously ruled on by appeals courts. She upheld the law’s controversial requirement that police, while enforcing other laws, can question the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally. The U.S. Supreme Court also upheld the requirement, but the law’s detractors continued to push their challenge at a lower-court level. Read the full story in Los Angeles Times.
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