A judge in Arizona has upheld the state’s landmark immigration law on Friday as opponents were unable to show that police would enforce the law differently for Latinos than it would for people of other ethnicities, Fox News reports.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton dismissed the challenge.
This ruling may lead to closure of the case and will be a win for the backers of the law that passed in 2010.
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Under the law, police may question the immigration status of those they suspect may be living in the country illegally, whilst enforcing other laws.
Bolton wrote that challengers to the law have “not produced any evidence that state law enforcement officials will enforce SB1070 differently for Latinos than a similarly situated person of another race or ethnicity.”
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