Patchwork Immigration Enforcement Will Remain In Arizona
As they gear up for the scheduled implementation of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law tomorrow, local law enforcement officers are attempting to figure out how to enforce the new policies. In Phoenix and Tuscon, for instance, police departments are instructing officers to check immigration status on every person they arrest — regardless of suspicion of illegal immigration. Interestingly, the policy written by outspoken pro-enforcement Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County is among the less thorough, cautioning deputies to continue their policy of waiting on immigration questions until they are ready to make arrests. SB 1070 supporters told the Arizona Republic the Pheonix and Tuscon policies are designed to clog the system and harm implementation of the law. And even without SB 1070, Arizona law enforcement agents in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office are responsible for a huge percentage of deportations, perhaps due to the county’s more targeted approach. So ultimately, the number of status checks may not correlate with the number of people deported.
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At least part of the reason for illegal immigration into the U.S. is the complicated process immigrants have to navigate through in order to immigrate into the U.S. That process lasts between six and 16 years. UPDATE: Judge Susan Bolton has blocked several controversial parts of Arizona’s SB 1070 from going into effect at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.
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