Evans Liberal Politics, July 29, 2010, by Paul Evans with sources from The Raw Story. Thanks to The Raw Story for permission to republish their content on an ongoing basis:

Ariz. sheriff: I’ll jail immigration protesters

Listen to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio as he says nothing will change for the new immigration law and it will be enforced. AP News – 1:45.

Ariz. Sheriff: I’ll Jail Immigration Protestors, Associated Press on the Raw Story, July 28, 2010, by The Associated Press:

The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he’s “not going to put up with any civil disobedience” when the state’s new immigration law takes effect.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he’ll put them in it.

The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person’s immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally.

Arpaio told ABC’s “Good Morning America” he doesn’t know “what the big hype is.”

He says it’s “a crime to be here illegally and everyone should enforce” the law.

Watch video on this from ABC’s Good Morning America, broadcast July 28, 2010.

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law, Associated Press on The Raw Story, July 28, 2010, by The Associated Press:

Judge blocks controversial sections of Arizona’s new immigration law

A federal judge dealt a serious blow to Arizona’s immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton sets up a lengthy legal battle as Arizona fights to enact the nation’s toughtest-in-the-nation law. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer said the state likely appeal the ruling and seek to get the judge’s order overturned.

But for now, opponents of the law have prevailed: The provisions that angered opponents will not take effect, including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also delayed parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places. In addition, the judge blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.

“Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked,” U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in her decision.

She said the controversial sections should be put on hold until the courts resolve the issues. Other provisions of the law, many of them procedural and slight revisions to existing Arizona immigration statute, will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

The law was signed by Brewer in April and immediately revived the national debate on immigration, making it a hot-button issue in the midterm elections. The law has inspired similar law elsewhere (21 other states, I believe — Paul Evans), prompted a boycott against the state and led an unknown number of illegal immigrants to leave the state. (About 400,000 illegal immigrants have been widely expected to flee Arizona. What the court ruling does is to possibly slow or diminish this flood of illegals from going to other, more friendly states. There are 46.9 million Latinos living in the United States plus 4 million who live in Puerto Rico. California is home to 13.5 million Hispanics, and Texas is home to 8.9 million. Hispanics also made up at least one fifth of the population in California and Texas, at 37% each, Arizona (30%t), Nevada (26%), Florida (21%) and Colorado (20%). If Republicans want 95 percent of these voting Democrat, I guess that’s their choice. — Paul Evans)

Read the full article, here.

UPDATE: Brewer: Fight over AZ law ‘far from over’

See Brewer: Fight over AZ law ‘far from over’, The Raw Story, July 28, 2010, by Agence France-Presse, excerpt quoted verbatim:

PHOENIX, Arizona — Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said Wednesday she would swiftly appeal a judge’s ruling blocking key parts of a new state immigration law, vowing to take it all the way to the Supreme Court.

“This fight is far from over. In fact, it is just the beginning, and at the end of what is certain to be a long legal struggle, Arizona will prevail in its right to protect our citizens,” Brewer said in a statement.

Opponents to take to streets against Arizona immigration law

Opponents to take to streets against Arizona immigration law, Agence France-Presse on The Raw Story, July 28m 2010, by Agence France-Presse.

Thousands are expected to march Thursday when an Arizona law making illegal immigration a crime goes into effect over government objections and amid fears it will lead to ethnic profiling.

Passed by the Arizona state legislature in April, the law has been challenged by the federal government with a possibility that a judge might delay its implementation. (now the judge’s ruling is a reality – Paul Evans)

But that will not placate its opponents.

“We are waiting for the court to decide, but even if it issues a temporary injunction… we’re still going ahead with our protests, because 21 other states want to follow Arizona’s footsteps with racist laws” of their own, Paulina Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the “We Are All Arizona” group told AFP.

The protest movement has come alive in Arizona, where one third of the 6.6 million population is foreign born and an estimated 460,000 are illegal immigrants.

The eyes of the entire nation are fixed on this southwestern state, as the issue of immigration has grown in national scope both due to the recent economic downturn and the upcoming November legislative elections.

“Thursday will be our national civil disobedience day, when we’ll stand up to a racist, discriminatory and hypocritical measure that targets the very people who work for those who speak against undocumented workers,” National Day Laborer Organizing Network director, Pablo Alvarado, told AFP.

Signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer on April 23, law SB1070 includes a provision especially rankling for civil rights group that allows police to ask for documents verifying a person’s immigration status while checking for any violation, such as during a traffic stop.

For the first time in the United States, the law makes illegal immigration a crime and penalizes anybody helping or giving work to undocumented workers.

Civil rights leaders fear the law will lead to widespread ethnic profiling.

Last week, federal judge Susan Bolton heard arguments for and against the law. (and the current ruling temporarily stays the most egregious parts of the law… Paul Evans)

White House lawyers argued in a packed court room that immigration policy is exclusively the government’s responsibility and that state laws cannot trump federal rules or the US Constitution.

Read the full article, here.

See Hating Hispanics: Has Arizona Ignited Firestorm After Decade of Simmering Tension?, ABC News, July 19, 2010, by Sarah Netter.

Visit the National Immigration Law Center.

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