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Updated Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 3:45 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The Justice Department has officially filed suit against Arizona's new immigration enforcement law. The Obama Administration has been critical of the state's law since its passing several months ago and will now challenge the section that allows local police officers to question an individual's citizenship status, saying it usurps federal law.
The federal government will seek an injunction, preventing the law from going into effect on July 29 until the case is reviewed.
The Obama Administration will use the Constitution's Supremacy Clause in their case against Arizona. The Supremacy Clause states that federal law supersedes state law, and the Administration contends that the Arizona law goes beyond federal immigration enforcement statutes.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says the federal government's decision to sue is a bad idea.
"Arizona obviously has a terrible border security crisis that needs to be addressed, so Gov. Brewer has repeatedly said she would have preferred the resources and attention of the federal government would be focused on that crisis rather than this," Gov. Brewer's spokesman Paul Senseman said.
Shortly after the laws final passage, Pres. Obama announced that he would send 1,200 Border Patrol troops to the Arizona border to assist Border Patrol agents with their daily duties. He has yet to send the troops.
Three Democratic House Members from Arizona have asked the Administration not to sue.
"This lawsuit is a sideshow, distracting us from the real task at hand," Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick said in a statement released on Tuesday. "A court battle between the federal government and Arizona will not move us closer to securing the border or fixing America's broken immigration system."
Finally, we turned to NumbersUSA, an Arlington-Va.-based nonprofit group that opposes illegal immigration and advocates for limits on legal immigration, because it tracks what the presidential candidates say about immigration. The group’s president, Roy Beck, told us that Romney has expressed support for enacting "attrition by enforcement" policies on a national level such as requiring that businesses use E-Verify. Beck said Romney has not said specific provisions of SB 1070 should be taken as a model for federal immigration laws.
Day laborers, mostly illegal immigrants from Mexico, also had proliferated in other areas of metropolitan Phoenix, including Guadalupe, west Phoenix and Fountain Hills.
But drive by any of those locations now, and only a handful of day laborers are left. And no longer do they rush up to vehicles en masse, waving their hands in a desperate bid to get hired. Now, they are more likely to keep a lower profile, leaning against a tree or sitting on a milk crate.
There are several reasons for the change. Arizona's slumping economy has dried up the demand for day laborers, who typically are hired for yard cleaning, moving, tree cutting, construction and other jobs. Many have left Arizona to look for work in other states, or they have given up and returned to Mexico.
Missouri sheriffs are giving their support to law officers in states along the Mexican border seeking to enforce immigration laws.
The Missouri Sheriffs' Association this week approved a resolution backing states that have approved their own legislation on immigration enforcement. The resolution specifically mentions Arizona, where part of a new law on the subject has been blocked by a federal judge.
The Missouri sheriffs group said Wednesday the resolution was approved by more than 100 members at its annual meeting, with no votes in opposition.
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