![]() The Department of Justice also filed a lawsuit challenging S.B. Several prominent law enforcement groups, including the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, oppose the law because it diverts limited resources from law enforcement’s primary responsibility of providing protection and promoting public safety in the community and undermines trust and cooperation between local police and immigrant communities. If he cannot supply proof upon demand, Arizona law enforcement would be required to arrest and detain him. He worries about traveling in Arizona without a valid form of identification that would prove his citizenship to police if he is pulled over. ![]() passport and does not want to risk losing his birth certificate by carrying it with him. citizenship or immigration status to obtain a driver’s license. The state of New Mexico does not require proof of U.S. Although the law has not yet gone into effect, he has already been stopped twice by local law enforcement officers in Arizona and asked to produce his “papers.”Īnother plaintiff, Jesus Cuauhtémoc Villa, is a resident of the state of New Mexico who is currently attending Arizona State University. Shee asserts that he will be vulnerable to racial profiling under the law. Jim Shee, a plaintiff, is a U.S.-born 70-year-old American citizen of Spanish and Chinese descent. The ACLU will continue to challenge that the Arizona law invites racial profiling against people of color by law enforcement in violation of the equal protection guarantee and prohibition on unreasonable seizures under the 14th and Fourth Amendments, and infringes on the free speech rights of day laborers and others in Arizona.
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