A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the “show me your papers” provision in Arizona’s controversial immigration law, reports CNN:
Opponents had argued that new evidence of racial discrimination showed that the judge should block the provision, which allows local law enforcement, when performing other state law enforcement functions, to check on the immigration status of those people they stop for another reason.
But U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton ruled that the court could not block the provision based on the possibility of racial profiling. She cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision that upheld that part of the law.
