What is the sb 1070 to do?

Answer 1

The question refers to an Arizona State bill that was JUST paassed into law by the Arizona legislature. It allows Arizona law enforcement officers to ask into the legal citizenship status of those people with whom they come in contact. who they have reasonable suspicion to believe may be illegal aliens.

The most renowned controversy concerning state-level Immigration legislation in recent years was triggered by Arizona's "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" of 2010, better known as SB 1070 (as amended by HB 2162). Arizona Governor Janice Brewer signed SB 1070 into law on April 23, 2010, a sweeping anti-immigrant law bestowing broad policing duties and authorities to state and local law enforcement officials. Soon thereafter, the Department of Justice sued the state of Arizona, alleging that SB 1070 was preempted by its failure to comply with the federal enforcement priorities as specified by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Department of Homeland Security. On April 11, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction that enjoined several provisions of SB 1070 from going into effect. Arizona has appealed to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on April 25, 2012.

Other states inspired by Arizona's law enacted copycat bills in 2011, thereby creating patchwork policies in the country, including Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah. All of these state anti-immigration laws share a common strategy called "attrition through enforcement," which essentially urge undocumented immigrants to self-deport by making their lives unbearably difficult to sustain in the U.S. These states are facing similar lawsuits as those challenging Arizona's law, with judges presiding over the cases delaying their ruling until the Supreme Court hands down its decision in Arizona's case.