BREAKING: FEDERAL JUDGE SMACKS DOWN AZ PAPERS PLEASE LAW!

Micheal E. Hill has the scoop on the inevitable happening: Judge Susan Bolton blocking the more controversal portions of Arizona’s SB1070 – “Papers, Please” bill. At this moment, the usual pundits are filing their opinions on the matter, and there will definitely be appeals coming soon. Meanwhile all of the anti-SB1070 actions scheduled for tomorrow when the law was supposed to go into effect are still on. Nothing changes simply because there is still a problem. Frankly, the problem is the fact that were we talking about white illegal immigrants, this law would not have even made it out of committee. And the fact that those pro-SB1070 groups are not talking about white illegal immigrants tells you exactly what they are all about. To them, they lost the battle, but the (race) war is still on. At least for them. See, the rest of us are in good shape and we don’t have their hangups. And we will have to prevent them from ever being allowed to do this to our laws and our society. It is one thing to have political disagreements. Trying to create a climate of terror among people you don’t like is more than just a disagreement. It is unacceptable – and we can remember in November too.

Micheal E. Hill

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton has temporarily blocked the most controversial portions of S.B. 1070, Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, from taking effect. Judge Bolton’s decision was handed down on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, just one day before the law is set to go into effect. It will still take effect on Thursday, July 29, but the state will not be permitted to enforce the measure’s most controversial provisions.

Sections of S.B. 1070 that Bolton says are preempted by federal law include:

* Portion of Section 2 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 11-1051(B): requiring that an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is unlawfully present in the United States, and requiring verification of the immigration status of any person arrested prior to releasing that person

* Section 3 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 13-1509: creating a crime for the failure to apply for or carry alien registration papers

* Portion of Section 5 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 13-2928(C): creating a crime for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work

* Section 6 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 13-3883(A)(5): authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe the person has committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the United States.

Text of Judge Bolton’s Ruling on S.B. 1070