Originally posted on TheGrio on Thursday, July 29, 2010

Today, SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, went into effect. However, in a partial victory for opponents individual protestors and civil rights organizations to the U.S. Department of Justice–the law will be implemented only in part, and without the mandate for immigrants to carry their papers at all times and for law enforcement to check the immigration status of those they subjectively suspect to be undocumented.

By “tabling” the most violative provisions of civil and human rights law until the courts have resolved the issues, Judge Susan Bolton confirmed that it was “not in the public interest” for Arizona to preempt federal enforcement of immigration law. This decision comes on the heels of revelations that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set a quota to deport 400,000 undocumented immigrants by September 30, 2010.

Clearly, while Arizona’s law may be problematic, so to are federal enforcement efforts.
According to the ICE Chief John Morton, intentional deportation efforts would prioritize only those immigrants who present a danger to American safety (of which there are not 400,000); however, federal, state, and local efforts to assign quotas or create laws that implicitly encourage racial profiling and demeaning social policy suggest an alternate reality…

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