Legal Disputes For Arizona Immigration Law

Fox News Latino:

Phoenix -- Attorneys representing civil rights organizations on Monday presented their arguments against portions of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration law that prohibit day laborers from soliciting for work on the streets.

The law, which entered into force in July 2010, penalizes people who ask for work on the streets and also establishes sanctions for the people who hire them.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, among other groups, asked the federal court in Phoenix to block those elements of the law.

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Comments

[chc1940]

01:35 PM on 01/13/2012

Democrats do not want illegals deported. They would lose too many elections!!!!!

[sleepwalker68]

05:34 PM on 01/11/2012

There are more things to say about the background of the problem.

If it is applied targeting just a category and to no one else it is unconstitutional.

This law would apply as well if you stop in a neighborhood to pick up your children's teen-age baby-sitter, or ask one of your neighbors if he wants to lend you a hand with mowing your loan.

From the perspective of this law, you could get arrested for just doing that. But no one does that, even though you breach the same law, which makes it targeted to only a category of daily laborers (illegal immigrants).

This is the reason the California local ordinance incriminating this kind of behavior was struck down by the 9th Court of Appeals. It impeaches people from soliciting work in virtually any public place. The same as punishing people requesting the same work, even though it may mean just a baby-sitting or moving some furniture job you may ask your neighbor from inside your car in a neighborhood.

As for traffic violation, you be stopped anyway if you impede the traffic, regardless if you pick someone on curbside or double park.

That does not mean I am protecting the "rights" of a legal immigrant. I do not want, though, my rights be limited because of that. The government would need to look for another way, constitutional, of identifying these illegal immigrants.

[slinkybro]

02:05 PM on 01/11/2012

How is this discrimination or even an immigration issue? The law applies to everyone. If you want to get a job as a day laborer, you have to go to one of the centers. You can't just "hang out" on the street.

[francesca40]

05:34 AM on 01/11/2012

Day labor loiterers are ruining several main streets in once beautiful Marin County, California.
Awaiting an offer of work, they gather in groups, leer at various females who walk by, making salacious comments to each other in their version of the Spanish language.
My family wants to move out of California. We are overrun.
I would like to see California enact such a law, but don't think it will happen with Gov. Brown in Sacramento.

[nasknit]

07:17 PM on 01/10/2012

WOW! Big, bad Arizona not only wants immigration laws enforced, but it wants the laws that deny jobs to Illegal Aliens Enforced! Too bad the Federal Government can't get their act together (presuming they'd want to) to actually do something about Illegal Aliens, other than talk another Amnesty.

[azlegalcitizen]

11:57 PM on 01/10/2012

tHE OBAMA GANG ISN'T JUST TALKING AMNESTY THEY ARE GIVING IT OUT TO LATINOS LIKE SANTA HANDS OUT CANDY CANES. OVER 200,000 SALVADORANS WILLL GET AMNESTY CONTINUED DUE TO AN EARTHQUAKE IN 2001 THAT IS 10 YEARS AGO. OBAMA IS GIVING WORK FEDERAL PERMITS AND HAS CANCELLED THE TRIAL OF 300,000 ILLEGALS JUST THIS YEAR. NOW WE KNOW HE IS NOT GOING TO DEPORT ANY ILLEGAL IF THEY HAVE FAMILY HERE. OF COURSE THEY ALL HAVE FAIMLY HERE, IF THEY DON'T TODAY THEY WILL BY NEXT WEEK... WE HAVE A DICTATOR ON PAR WITH CASTRO, CHAVEZ AND MUSSOLINI IN BARACK OBAMA.

[andreabeth7]

02:33 PM on 01/11/2012

"OVER 200,000 SALVADORAN­S WILLL GET AMNESTY CONTINUED DUE TO AN EARTHQUAKE IN 2001 THAT IS 10 YEARS AGO."

Mere dilettantes. We have Hondurans and Nicaraguans who have been in the US under Temporary Protected Status since 1998 after Hurricane Mitch.

[BrokeInSoCal]

04:57 PM on 01/10/2012

I don't understand why illegal aliens feel they have a right to loiter in many communities.

[azlegalcitizen]

11:59 PM on 01/10/2012

TWO REASON, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TAKES THE SIDES OF THE ILLEGALS ON EVERY CHALLENGE WITH STATES OR LOCAL GOVS. THE OTHER REASON IS HOME DEPOT WANTS THEM THERE ON THEIR LOT SO THE CHEAP EMPLOYERS CAN BUY THEIR PRODUCTS AND GRAB AN ILLEGAL RIGHT THERE...

[sibyl9]

04:19 PM on 01/10/2012

I wish California would enact a law like this. I would like to be able to go to Home Depot without being harassed. It's even worse if I bring my young daughters.

[BrokeInSoCal]

04:58 PM on 01/10/2012

Try renting a u haul truck for a day - you will be attacked.

[trooper1]

05:01 PM on 01/10/2012

I go to Home Depot quite often, and have never been harassed.

[voyager48]

03:41 PM on 01/10/2012

Section 274 felonies under the Federal Immigration and Nationalit­y Act, INA 274A(a)(1)­(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporti­ng, sheltering­, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.”