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Judge Rules Arizona Can Begin Enforcement of Immigration Law – Rejects ‘Racial Profiling’ Claims

The ACLU and other activist groups were stunned today as a federal judge rejected their “racial profiling” lawsuit against landmark immigration law S.B. 1070, and cleared the way for Arizona to require police to start questioning suspected illegal aliens they have stopped.

In a 12-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton rejected pleas by those groups that what has been absurdly dubbed the “papers please” provision of Arizona’s SB 1070 cannot be enforced without violating civil rights. Bolton said there is no evidence of ‘”racial profiling” against Latinos, as the plaintiffs accused, and they cannot block the law from being enforced. She said lawsuits contesting the legality of the provision are appropriate only after the law takes effect.

More to the point, the judge noted that the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year overturned a previous injunction she had issued blocking enforcement Section 2(b) which requires police to question those they have stopped if there is reasonable suspicion they are in this country illegally.

“This court will not ignore the clear direction in the (earlier) opinion that Subsection 2(b) cannot be challenged further on its face before the law takes effect,” Bolton wrote.

The activists had expected Bolton to side with them, given that she originally blocked the major sections of 1070 in 2010, before the Supreme Court upheld the central provision in June.

Activists had hoped to block the law from taking effect before the election, as they know that when it was first enacted, more than 100,000 illegal aliens fled the state. Now that Arizona police are free to stop and check immigration status, there is likely to be another large waver of illegals to leave Arizona in the next several months. This could have a big effect on the election, as Democrats cannot count on as much voter fraud as they will get in states like North Carolina – which has seen massive registration irregularities and the outgoing Governor Bev Perdue vetoed a photo Voter ID provision in 2010.

This victory also will embolden states like Pennsylvania and Ohio to move ahead with Arizona-style laws in 2013. Stand With Arizona attorneys and activists are working with 17 state legislatures at this time to assist in the drafting of such laws.

Arizona is besieged by illegal immigration--more people and drugs cross illegally into the United States through Arizona than any other state. And Arizonans suffer the massive levels of crime that go with it. Drug and human smuggling, extortion, kidnapping and murders. And the Federal government has done NOTHING to stop it.

Arizonans have had enough. They decided to stop waiting for the Feds to do what the Constitution mandates--to protect its citizens from external threats. So they passed legislation to help stop the robberies, shootings, rapes, kidnapping, murders, and madness.

This isn't about racism, or xenophobia, or "apartheid" or any of the other hysterical slanders the left has come up. This is about the safety and well-being of the citizens of the state. And its support was overwhelming: 70% of Arizonans supported it. And support is Bi-Partisan, with 84% of Republicans and 51% of Democrats in favor.

But some have now come out and called for a boycott of Arizona. Incredibly, even one of its own U.S. Representatives--Rep. Raul Grijalva has joined this call for a boycott--of his own state!

We are just getting started. Stand with us!

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stand-with-arizona-and-against-illegal-immigration.html