Arizona governor signs immigration bill
Washington (CNN) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a state bill Friday that requires police to determine whether a person is in the United States legally, which critics say will foster racial profiling and discrimination but supporters say will crack down on illegal immigration.
The Republican governor also issued an executive order that would require additional training for local officers on how to implement the law without engaging in racial profiling.
“This training will include what does and does not constitute reasonable suspicion that a person is not legally present in the United States,” Brewer said after signing the bill.
Previously, officers could check someone’s immigration status only if that person was suspected in another crime.
What will Arizona’s immigration law do?
Brewer’s executive order was in response to critics who argue that the new law will lead to racial profiling, saying that most police officers don’t have enough training to look past race while investigating a person’s legal status.
“Racial profiling is illegal. It is illegal in America, and it’s certainly illegal in Arizona,” Brewer said.
The bill is considered to be among the toughest immigration measures in the nation. Supporters say the measure is needed to fill a void left by the federal government’s failure to enforce its immigration laws.
This week, its leading sponsor, state Sen. Russell Pearce, said, “Illegal is not a race; it’s a crime.”
“We’re going to take the handcuffs off of law enforcement. We’re going to put them on the bad guy,” said Pearce, a Republican.
The bill requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect that they’re in the United States illegally. It also targets those who hire illegal immigrant day laborers or knowingly transport them.
In the hours leading up to the bill’s signing, thousands rallied at the Arizona Capitol, and President Obama, in the nation’s capital, called the legislation “misguided” but said the federal government must act on the immigration issue.
“Our failure to act responsible at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. That includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe,” the president said at a naturalization ceremony for 24 members of the military.
Read the full text of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (PDF)
Latino members of Congress also slammed the bill. “When you institutionalize a law like this one, you are targeting and discriminating at a wholesale level against a group of people,” Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, said Tuesday.
Grijalva and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, had called on Brewer to veto the measure.
Gutierrez is a leading supporter of a proposed overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and said the Arizona issue shows why an overhaul is necessary. He has urged Obama to “put his back into the push” and to let Arizona know that federal law trumps state legislation on immigration.
Brewer said that “decades of federal inaction and misguided policies” have created “a dangerous and unacceptable situation.”
The governor said Arizona’s law mirrors federal statutes on immigration enforcement, “despite the erroneous and misleading statements suggesting otherwise.”
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leticia olalia morales of 15501 pasadena ave #8 tustin ca 92780 submitted fake employment records to obtain a US work visa. she also used fake documents and paid $5000.00 for a US tourist visa. she is now applying for citizenship.
Mary, Arm thyself, as Christ told us to. hbAAARP 3%er!
To those of you who oppose AZ SB1070, I say open up your homes, your wallets, your medical insurance to any illegal that wants it & then talk.
I’m sick of Arizonan employers giving jobs away to people that live 20 in an apartment. We do have an employer sanctions law that isn’t used often enough.
I’m tired of my childs education being dumbed down because there are more kids that speak Spanish than English in the local schools. It is part of the reason that I homeschool my daughter through an on line charter school.
I’m tired of not being able to explore the Southern most areas of my state because I feel it is unsafe for my family & I to do so. Not only is it unsafe, but the illegals crossing the border have trashed many areas with the waste & human excrement they leave behind.
I’m tired of the illegals blantant disregard for the laws of America & their refusal to follow them. Do you know that they such disregard for our laws that I see them in broad daylight, crouching in bushes to hide from our Border patrol? 2 BP agents to 6 illegals, & those were just the ones I saw!
I’m tired of seeing the illegals comming here & demanding rights that the Constitution gives to LEGAL citizens of our country.
Until you want to open your homes & your wallest to the illegals as well as give them your jobs….you can stuff it.
The “hippybiker” is moving to Florida to help his widowed mother. She told him “Make sure you bring your Birth Certificate, or you will not be able to obtain a drivers License.” good job AZ and FL. hb AARP 3%er!
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IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WONT ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS–STATES WILL.
Legal citizens who jumped through hoops are welcome–but illegal immigrants will not get any Amnesty–leading to citizenship.
Arizona Govern Jan Brewer has more–SPINE–than the majority of our politicians, to fight the overpowering onslaught of illegal immigration. She signed the 1070 immigration bill. Arizona a border state is rampant with murders, home invasion, kidnappings, rapes, assaults and one of the highest crime rates, by illegal immigrants. Its ignorance and indifference of Washington, not to enforce our immigration laws? In fact they have purposely underfunded them.
San. Harry Reid (D-NV) is not being ousted just for health care reform, but being a puppet of open border-special interests groups? LETS MAKE THAT CLEAR. One thing for absolutely sure, desperate illegal alien families will be fleeing Arizona, for more greener pastures such as California. Seeing California is a Refuge state for illegal foreigners and already has the largest illegal population in Unites States other than New York. Now starving for billions of dollars, California will have to amend their own enforcement laws to stop the massive migration or pay a heavy price in extorting more money from taxpayers. Then there is always Utah, Texas, New Mexico or even farther states such as Washington. ONE THINGS FOR SURE, THAT THEY MAY PASS SOME FORMULATION OF IMMIGRATION REFORM. BUT AMERICA WILL FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL THAT NO “PATH–TO–CITIZENSHIP” FOR THOSE WHO CAME HERE ILLEGALLY. I am personally a tea partier a moderate Conservative and definitely not a Democrat and Republicans.-and illegal immigration is the no.1 priority to me, and must be stopped for good.
Californian’s are under financial hardship owing to the welfare programs that caters to illegal alien families, and with an outpouring of Arizona’s illegals the Sacramento budget will triple in handouts. Californian’s, specifically Angelino’s and San Francisco. There should be no excuse why FEDERAL SOLDIERS SHOULD BE NOT DEPLOYED TO THE 2000 MILE BORDER. They need to police the border, with the under-manned border patrol and even poorly funded law enforcement agencies. Sheriffs and deputies that are in a very dangerous area are basically armed, against heinous felons, drug cartels, skin traffickers, smugglers and the flow of unceasing indigent illegal immigrants. LET ME REITERATE, THAT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS ONLY SEEN TO WORK. BUT THE TRUTH IS ITS NOT ENFORCED–THAT RIGHT NOW HOMELAND SECURITY HAS CUT BUDGETS FOR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. If you are–NOT–an open border extremist, join the organization that is fighting for our rights, your language, freedoms and liberty at NumbersUSA.
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Finally a politician with some tenacity and courage to stand up to the Corrupt immoral PC we all have to live under. Continue to stay strong in your values and your principles as this is a step in the correct direction. God Help this Country.