Arizona Immigration Law has not lived up to reputation

[SargeUNN]

Source: Arizona Republic


The nation's toughest immigration law has been in effect for three months. But after the federal courts prevented key portions from going into effect, it has failed to live up to both opponents' worst fears and supporters' greatest hopes.

Immigrant-rights groups and major Arizona law-enforcement agencies say they've heard of no arrests made or citations issued using the statutes created under Senate Bill 1070, and no Arizona resident has taken advantage of the portion of the law that allows them to sue an official or agency that is not enforcing federal immigration law to the fullest extent.

The law that went into effect on July 29 is a shadow of its original self. The day before, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton halted four key provisions from going into effect, including the portion of the law that requires a police officer to verify a person's status when there is reasonable suspicion that the subject is an undocumented immigrant.
Gov. Jan Brewer is appealing Bolton's ruling, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments from both sides Monday in San Francisco.



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I can hear the excuse, "The law is tied up in courts so it doesn't have a chance." However they won't mention the fact that the track record of laws like it is 100% failure and that even Brewer said that the law really doesn't address the immigration problem.

[ProudDad]

1. Trust this republican rag to print an internally inconsistent piece of drivel

"The law that went into effect on July 29 is a shadow of its original self."

DUH!!!

But the headline:

"Arizona immigration law has not lived up to reputation"

:grr:

The headline writers work for the editorial board.

The USAmerikan Empire has the most effective propaganda machine ever devised -- corporate-owned and self-censored...

Fucking Amazing!!!

Joseph Goebbels would have creamed in his pants if he had had access to a propaganda machine as effective as this one.

[merwin]

2. "It is having the impact needed" and "they intend to use these laws"

In the same sentence...

Is this person is freely admitting that the intended impact was to stir up controversy and not to actually be enforced? And given the statement that they are not using the laws, might the department be sued now for not enforcing their own immigration laws that were passed?

That would be an interesting turn of events, if they got sued for not enforcing the laws that they worked so hard to push through :)

[classysassy]

3. SB1070 is a joke

the police have always treated people of color disrespectfully ,SB1070 just make it legal.

[muntrv]

4. S.B. 1070 was created as a boon to the private prison industry.