Department of Justice. Just a day before the law was to take effect, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that held back its most aggressive elements while lawsuits against the bill played out. The U. In , the Supreme Court, in a ruling, blocked three provisions of the Arizona law, but upheld the provision that required officers to demand papers from individuals, a situation that even the conservative dissenters among the justices acknowledged could lead to improper detentions and arrests.
How will they train themselves going forward? SB was born amid a different conversation on immigration, one that centered on strident deportation policies and massive workplace raids. After former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed several versions of state bills that targeted immigrants, supporters of SB found a more accepting environment with Brewer.
Today, the rise of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his pledge to build a wall on the U. Gallup polling has consistently shown increasing numbers of people in the U. Or that the state should unthinkingly sally forth with other divisive proposals, such as a ballot measure on sanctuary cities, which Gov.
Doug Ducey proposed before retreating. And there is no reason for the state to regard SB as a badge of shame. It was an attempt to do something the body politic wanted and about which there was an open legal question.
Reach Robb at robert. Thank you for subscribing. This premium content is made possible because of your continued support of local journalism. Facebook Twitter Email. Every person in Arizona and states that pass S. In practice it will be people of color that bear the brunt of these policies. Instead of focusing on community safety, law enforcement professionals in Arizona and other states with anti-immigrant laws will be forced to focus more on detaining unauthorized immigrants.
As Sgt. A key safeguard of public health is a robust immunization program that protects all residents against diseases such as chicken pox, measles, polio, and even the flu. But if parents are afraid to get flu shots for themselves or their children, even though the law technically says that lawful status is not required for immunizations, our whole society is put at risk. When you consider the long history, even before this law was passed, of racial profiling against people suspected of being in this country illegally, it is pretty easy to see how a law requiring police officers to demand papers based solely on their suspicions will be abused.
Finally, using local police officers who are untrained in the complexities and proper enforcement of federal immigration law is a recipe for racial profiling, particularly in Arizona. Just ask Julio and Julian Mora — a lawful permanent resident and his U. For three years, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deployed hundreds of deputies and volunteer posses to target Latino neighborhoods, rounding up people on the streets, questioning and detaining people driving through traffic stops and the like, including U.
Despite civil rights lawsuits and a United States Justice Department investigation into these practices, Arpaio remains unfazed. What other factors would they use? In fact, the ACLU is already representing a number of people in this country legally who have been profiled, including Julio and Julian Mora mentioned above.
Stopping drivers because of how they look and then coming up with some reason for the stop other than race is nothing new. For additional information, see www. As many top law enforcement officials, including the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, have already acknowledged, this law will significantly harm the public trust that law enforcement officials need in order to protect the people of Arizona and will alienate police officers from the communities they serve.
The law will force police officers to devote scarce resources to investigating false threats rather than solving serious crimes. The criminal justice system is compromised because crime victims are more vulnerable and will be unwilling to report crimes and witnesses will be afraid to cooperate out of fear that they will be targeted. Local cops will be put into the difficult position of relying on biased presumptions — and racial profiling — when asking anyone who looks or sounds foreign to confirm their citizenship or immigration status.
Additionally, the few instances where the federal government has deputized local law enforcement in Arizona to enforce immigration laws under the federal g program has proved to be disastrous, resulting in racial profiling and other civil rights and civil liberties abuses.
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