The Supreme Court has overturned key parts of Arizona’s anti-immigrant
law S.B. 1070 but upheld the law’s controversial "show me your papers"
provision. On Monday, the court struck down three of the law’s four
provisions that subject undocumented immigrants to criminal penalties
for seeking work or failing to carry immigration papers at all times. In
each case, the majority said those powers rest with the federal
government, not with Arizona. But in a unanimous decision, the justices
upheld the law’s controversial Section 2B, which requires police to
check the immigration status of people they stop before releasing them.
We’re joined from Washington, D.C., by Marielena Hincapié of the
National Immigration Law Center, a group that has filed a civil rights
challenge to S.B. 1070 and similar laws in five other states, and from
Phoenix by Viridiana Hernandez, an undocumented immigrant who would
benefit from the Obama administration’s recent order allowing
undocumented youth to apply for a two-year stay from deportation. "The
fact that I can leave my house and tell my mom, 'Mom, I'll be back
tonight,’ does not change the fact that she can leave the house and not
tell me the same thing," Hernandez says. "That’s why we continue
fighting, because our families are still at risk, and our communities
are still at risk. And so, there hasn’t been [a] win unless our whole
community wins."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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