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The ruling blocking much of Arizona's harsh SB 1070 calls into question the right's get-tough approach to immigration.
| Mon Jun. 25, 2012 10:58 AM PDT
Several parts of
Arizona's harsh anti-illegal immigration law, which sought to purge the
state of unauthorized immigrants through a policy of "attrition through
enforcement," were blocked Monday by a Supreme Court decision that
invalidated three of the law's four main provisions but let stand—for
now—the part of the law that allows police to stop anyone they suspect
or being in the country illegally and request proof of their status. The
Arizona law had set off a burst of copycat legislation in other
conservative states, some even more severe than the original. But with
this decision, the laws spawned elsewhere are now susceptible to
challenge—and the right's get-tough approach to immigration is at risk.
"The court resoundingly rejected the argument that Arizona had the right
to impose its own criminal penalties for being undocumented in
[Arizona] or trying to seek work in the state," says Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel at the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center. "I think that is very encouraging to challengers of other state laws." READ MORE
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